scholarly journals Various multipole combinations for conical Si particles

2021 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 012080
Author(s):  
A V Kuznetsov ◽  
A Canós Valero ◽  
P D Terekhov ◽  
H K Shamkhi

Abstract In this work, we investigated the possibility of creating various multipole combinations in conical silicon nanoparticles. It was found that in conical silicon particles it seems possible to create key effects for nanophotonics, such as various kinds of Kerker effects (Generalized Kerker, Transverse Kerker), Hybrid anapole state, Bound states in the continuum. This greatly simplifies the manufacturing process of photonic devices due to the easier production of nanocones in practice. Also, conical particles allow an additional degree of freedom, which opens up new horizons for obtaining previously unknown effects.

2020 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 05002
Author(s):  
Julian Wüster ◽  
Patrick Feßer ◽  
Arne Behrens ◽  
Stefan Sinzinger

Subwavelength-structures with different fill factors in the lateral dimensions result in unique phase shifts for the different polarization states of transmitted light. By using this additional degree of freedom for diffractive optical elements, we yield additional functionalities for compact optical systems with DOEs. As a fully operable example we present a binary subwavelength-grating which acts as a polarizing beamsplitter for TE- and TM-polarization over a wide range of incidence angles. We show our design approach, the manufacturing process with Soft-UV-Nanoimprint-Technology, as well as experimental results. We will also lay out possibilities for the design and application of multilevel polarization-functionalized gratings.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1295-1307
Author(s):  
Yulin Wang ◽  
Zhanghua Han ◽  
Yong Du ◽  
Jianyuan Qin

Abstract Toroidal dipole (TD) with weak coupling to the electromagnetic fields offers tremendous potential for advanced design of photonic devices. However, the excitation of high quality (Q) factor TD resonances in these devices is challenging. Here, we investigate ultrahigh-Q factor TD resonances at terahertz frequencies arising from a distortion of symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (BIC) in all-dielectric metasurface consisting of an array of high-index tetramer clusters. By elaborately arranging the cylinders forming an asymmetric cluster, two distinct TD resonances governed by BIC are excited and identified. One is distinguished as intracluster TD mode that occurs in the interior of tetramer cluster, and the other one is intercluster TD mode that arises from the two neighboring clusters. Such TD resonances can be turned into ultrahigh-Q leaky resonances by controlling the asymmetry of cluster. The low-loss TD resonances with extremely narrow linewidth are very sensitive to the change in the refractive index of the surrounding media, achieving ultrahigh sensitivity level of 489 GHz/RIU. These findings will open up an avenue to develop ultrasensitive photonic sensor in the terahertz regime.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2343
Author(s):  
Fengyan He ◽  
Jianjun Liu ◽  
Guiming Pan ◽  
Fangzhou Shu ◽  
Xufeng Jing ◽  
...  

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention due to their infinite Q factor. However, the realization of the analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) by near-field coupling with a dark BIC in metasurfaces remains challenging. Here, we propose and numerically demonstrate the realization of a high-quality factor EIT by the coupling of a bright electric dipole resonance and a dark toroidal dipole BIC in an all-dielectric double-layer metasurface. Thanks to the designed unique one-dimensional (D)–two-dimensional (2D) combination of the double-layer metasurface, the sensitivity of the EIT to the relative displacement between the two layer-structures is greatly reduced. Moreover, several designs for widely tunable EIT are proposed and discussed. We believe the proposed double-layer metasurface opens a new avenue for implementing BIC-based EIT with potential applications in filtering, sensing and other photonic devices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 125002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suxia Xie ◽  
Changzhong Xie ◽  
Song Xie ◽  
Jie Zhan ◽  
Zhijian Li ◽  
...  

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1081-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye Ndao ◽  
Liyi Hsu ◽  
Wei Cai ◽  
Jeongho Ha ◽  
Junhee Park ◽  
...  

AbstractOne of the key challenges in biology is to understand how individual cells process information and respond to perturbations. However, most of the existing single-cell analysis methods can only provide a glimpse of cell properties at specific time points and are unable to provide cell secretion and protein analysis at single-cell resolution. To address the limits of existing methods and to accelerate discoveries from single-cell studies, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a new sensor based on bound states in the continuum to quantify exosome secretion from a single cell. Our optical sensors demonstrate high-sensitivity refractive index detection. Because of the strong overlap between the medium supporting the mode and the analytes, such an optical cavity has a figure of merit of 677 and sensitivity of 440 nm/RIU. Such results facilitate technological progress for highly conducive optical sensors for different biomedical applications.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhao Wang ◽  
Lucas V. Besteiro ◽  
Peng Yu ◽  
Feng Lin ◽  
Alexander O. Govorov ◽  
...  

Abstract Hot electrons generated in metallic nanostructures have shown promising perspectives for photodetection. This has prompted efforts to enhance the absorption of photons by metals. However, most strategies require fine-tuning of the geometric parameters to achieve perfect absorption, accompanied by the demanding fabrications. Here, we theoretically propose a Ag grating/TiO2 cladding hybrid structure for hot electron photodetection (HEPD) by combining quasi-bound states in the continuum (BIC) and plasmonic hot electrons. Enabled by quasi-BIC, perfect absorption can be readily achieved and it is robust against the change of several structural parameters due to the topological nature of BIC. Also, we show that the guided mode can be folded into the light cone by introducing a disturbance to become a guided resonance, which then gives rise to a narrow-band HEPD that is difficult to be achieved in the high loss gold plasmonics. Combining the quasi-BIC and the guided resonance, we also realize a multiband HEPD with near-perfect absorption. Our work suggests new routes to enhance the light-harvesting in plasmonic nanosystems.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 655-665
Author(s):  
Stephanie C. Malek ◽  
Adam C. Overvig ◽  
Sajan Shrestha ◽  
Nanfang Yu

AbstractActively tunable and reconfigurable wavefront shaping by optical metasurfaces poses a significant technical challenge often requiring unconventional materials engineering and nanofabrication. Most wavefront-shaping metasurfaces can be considered “local” in that their operation depends on the responses of individual meta-units. In contrast, “nonlocal” metasurfaces function based on the modes supported by many adjacent meta-units, resulting in sharp spectral features but typically no spatial control of the outgoing wavefront. Recently, nonlocal metasurfaces based on quasi-bound states in the continuum have been shown to produce designer wavefronts only across the narrow bandwidth of the supported Fano resonance. Here, we leverage the enhanced light-matter interactions associated with sharp Fano resonances to explore the active modulation of optical spectra and wavefronts by refractive-index tuning and mechanical stretching. We experimentally demonstrate proof-of-principle thermo-optically tuned nonlocal metasurfaces made of silicon and numerically demonstrate nonlocal metasurfaces that thermo-optically switch between distinct wavefront shapes. This meta-optics platform for thermally reconfigurable wavefront shaping requires neither unusual materials and fabrication nor active control of individual meta-units.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 998
Author(s):  
Diego R. Abujetas ◽  
José A. Sánchez-Gil

Resonant optical modes arising in all-dielectric metasurfaces have attracted much attention in recent years, especially when so-called bound states in the continuum (BICs) with diverging lifetimes are supported. With the aim of studying theoretically the emergence of BICs, we extend a coupled electric and magnetic dipole analytical formulation to deal with the proper metasurface Green function for the infinite lattice. Thereby, we show how to excite metasurface BICs, being able to address their near-field pattern through point-source excitation and their local density of states. We apply this formulation to fully characterize symmetry-protected BICs arising in all-dielectric metasurfaces made of Si nanospheres, revealing their near-field pattern and local density of states, and, thus, the mechanisms precluding their radiation into the continuum. This formulation provides, in turn, an insightful and fast tool to characterize BICs (and any other leaky/guided mode) near fields in all-dielectric (and also plasmonic) metasurfaces, which might be especially useful for the design of planar nanophotonic devices based on such resonant modes.


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