Maple-seed-inspired asymmetric microdisk resonators
Inah Yeo, Je Hwang Lee · 2025
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Inah Yeo and Je Hwang Lee design light resonators shaped like maple seeds in a 2025 paper. Microdisk resonators, tiny disks that trap light in a loop, are a base part of chip-scale photonics, but nearly all are round and symmetric. The authors asked what an uneven shape, copied from the one-sided wing of a maple seed, could add.
Their theory shows the lopsided disks can tune how strongly light couples in small pillar structures, a control plain disks lack. The shape's built-in direction also lets coupling be picked by scale and angle. The disks could serve as nodes in networks that pass motion through strain. The authors present the work as proof that nature-shaped asymmetry can widen what photonic chips can do.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Inah Yeo, Je Hwang Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 75 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |