Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Generalized Fano lineshapes reveal exceptional points in photonic molecules

  • Niccolò Caselli,
  • Francesca Intonti,
  • Federico La China,
  • Francesco Biccari,
  • Francesco Riboli,
  • Annamaria Gerardino,
  • Lianhe Li,
  • Edmund H. Linfield,
  • Francesco Pagliano,
  • Andrea Fiore,
  • Massimo Gurioli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02855-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fano lineshapes are found in many photonic systems where discrete and extended spectra interfere. Here, the authors extend this description and introduce generalized Fano lineshapes to describe the results from hyperspectral mapping around an exceptional point in a coupled-cavity system.