Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation pdf

Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation, nat. Schuller j a, barnard e s, cai w s, jun y c, white j s, brongersma m l. Localized heating induced chemical vapor deposition for onedimensional nanostructure synthesis. High field plasmonics and laserplasma acceleration in solid. These properties also make plasmonics an ideal candidate for dynamically controlling nonlinear optical interactions at the nanoscale. National creative research center for active plasmonics application systems, interuniversity semiconductor. Our results demonstrate that there exists a promising alternative to lossy metals for extreme light concentration and manipulation. The science of plasmonics is dealing with generation, manipulation, and detection of surface plasmon polaritons spps. Compact onchip plasmonic light concentration based on a. The optical signature of the nanostructure is highly dependent on the parameters like size, shape, composition, and surrounding environments. Pdf plasmonics for extreme light concentration and. Roomtemperature subdiffractionlimited plasmon laser by. In this paper, a novel concept of a flat nanofocusing device is proposed for simultaneously squeezing both electric and magnetic fields in deepsubwavelength. Plasmonics, defined as light metal interactions via coupling with the conduction electrons at the metaldielectric interface fang and zhu, 20, jiang et al.

However, traditional verticalcoupling elements, such as grating couplers, by default radiate light in both upward and downward directions, leading to a significant reduction of device efficiency. These properties also make plasmonics an ideal candidate for dynamically controlling nonlinear optical. Extreme light concentration inside plasmonic gold and silver. Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation ja schuller, es barnard, w cai, yc jun, js white, ml brongersma nature materials 9 3, 193204, 2010.

Plasmonics provides a route to develop ultracompact optical devices on a chip by using extreme light concentration and the ability to perform simultaneous electrical and optical functions. Based on the finite element method, effective mode index behaviors. Plasmonic coaxial waveguidecavity devices stanford university. As shown by the material in the various subsections, the subset of plasmonic structures that use extreme light concentration and 202 manipulation are witnessing particularly rapid developments and. Abstract not available bibtex entry for this abstract preferred format for this abstract see preferences find similar abstracts. Localized electron emission dynamics from a 60nm spot on an atomically flat singlecrystalline gold surface. Plasmonassisted local temperature control to pattern.

Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation. In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light an optical oscillation consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. A diverse set of plasmonics applications has emerged in the past 10 years. Lagoudakis, 1 tomas sarmiento,1 armand rundquist,1 arka majumdar,2 and jelena vuckovic1 1department of electrical engineering and ginzton laboratory, 348 via pueblo, stanford university. Geometric quantization of localized surface plasmons. In these traditional pvds, sprinduced light concentration generally occurs at the interface between the metallic nanostructure and dielectric layer. Compact onchip plasmonic light concentration based on a hybrid photonicplasmonic structure. Finitewidth plasmonic waveguides with hyperbolic multilayer cladding viktoriia e.

This has opened up a wide range of applications based on extreme light concentration3, including nanophotonic lasers and amplifiers4,5, optical. For this reason, it will be valuable to explore ways to get around that issue. Subwavelength metallic structures, when illuminated with a frequency close to the plasma frequency of the metal, present resonances that cause extreme. We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a periodic grating of shallow rectangular grooves in a metallic film with the goal of maximizing the coupling efficiency of an extended plane wave pw of visible or nearinfrared light into a single surface plasmon polariton spp mode on a flat metal surface. Plasmonics is an exploding new field of science and technology in which the flow of light can be molded at the nanoscale using metallic nanostructures. With a dielectric bowtie unit cell, photonic crystals can achieve a mode volume as small as 0. In some cases, local heat generation may be used to advantage, and in some cases heating losses can be neglected.

Ozbay, 2006, converts light into propagating electrical signals and, therefore, merges photonics with electronics at the nanoscale and provides a possible path to. Brongersma, plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation, nat. Aug 22, 2016 with a dielectric bowtie unit cell, photonic crystals can achieve a mode volume as small as 0. In this paper, we will present the design of a novel ultracompact onchip plasmonic light concentrator plc, and show that there are three major effects mode beat, nanofocusing, and weak resonance that govern this light concentration phenomenon and affect the ef. Extreme light concentration inside plasmonic gold and. Hybrid metaldielectric nanocavity for enhanced lightmatter. Verticalemitting optical couplers that convert inplane guided light to outofplane emission are crucial elements for future photonic integrated circuits. Quasiparticle due to coupling of light and surface plasmon sp. Until recently, it was thought that the manipulation of light was limited by the fundamental laws of diffraction to relatively large, wavelength scale about 1 m components. With vertically slotted hybrid plasmonic waveguides vshpwsnanocavity system fabricated on the silicononinsulator platform, a nearinfrared surface plasmon resonances sprsbased refractive index ri sensor with extremely high figure of merit fom 224.

Plasmonics yields efficient electron transport via assembly. By squeezing light into nanoscale volumes, plasmonic elements allow for fundamental studies of light matter interactions at length scales that were otherwise inaccessible. As shown by the material in the various subsections, the subset of plasmonic structures that use extreme light concentration and 202 manipulation are witnessing particularly rapid developments and show significant future promise. The unprecedented ability of nanometallic that is, plasmonic structures to concentrate light into deepsubwavelength volumes has propelled their use in a vast. Light beam striking a metal surface can generate plasmons, electron density waves that can carry huge amounts of data. Kildishev1, 1school of electrical and computer engineering and bi rck nanotechnology center, purdue university, 1205 west state street, west lafayette, indiana 479072057, usa. Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation j. Sorger1, guy bartal1 and xiang zhang1,2 plasmon lasers are a new class of coherent optical ampli. Osa compact onchip plasmonic light concentration based on. Roomtemperature subdiffractionlimited plasmon laser by total internal re. Overview of lightmatter manipulation in plasmonic nanoparticle np lattices based on rationally.

Plasmonic mode converter for controlling optical impedance and nanoscale light matter interaction. Department of chemistry, national tsing hua university, hsinchu 300, taiwan. Over the past few years, plasmonic gradientindex grin lenses, with the advantages of being flat and free of geometrical aberrations, have been extensively investigated theoretically and experimentally 7,8,9,10. Coupling of spin and angular momentum of light in plasmonic.

Distributions of laser intensity are inhomogeneous for investigated values of nanoparticle sizes and laser wavelengths. Here, we show new effect of extreme light intensity concentration in shadow hemisphere of gold and silver nanoparticles with localizing light at the nanoscale for selected values of nanoparticle sizes and radiation wavelengths. It has been hard to achieve simultaneous plasmonic enhancement of nanoscale light matter interactions in terms of both electric and magnetic manners with easily reproducible fabrication method and systematic theoretical design rule. Brongersm a, plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation, nature materials 9, 193204 2010 cited more than 2000 times. Osa numerical investigations of a nearinfrared plasmonic. The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures is increasingly attracting interest because of numerous potential applications.

Nanophotonics and plasmonics 322 losses when they interact with light. Electrically controlled nonlinear generation of light with. Threedimensional plasmonic micro projector for light. Plasmon lasers are a new class of coherent optical amplifiers that generate and. The fields of photonic crystals and plasmonics have taken two different approaches to increasing light matter interaction. A fundamental understanding of plasmonic processes at the metaldielectric interface remains unclear, largely because such interfaces are not well defined in most pvds. Using the curved arrangement of au nanobumps, the scattering of surface plasmon waves are transformed into spots at desired locations and altitudes in three. Electromagnetic density of states in complex plasmonic.

Plasmonicsplasmonics the newer technology that enables faster world 1 k. Thus, plasmons are collective a discrete number oscillations. Light manipulation with encoded plasmonic nanostructures chenglong zhao1,a, jiasen zhang1,2, and yongmin liu3,4, 1 state key laboratory for mesoscopic physics, department of physics, peking university, beijing 100871, china. Pdf plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation. If focused on a surface etched with a circular groove, as in this artists rendering, the beam produces concentric waves, organizing the electrons into high and lowdensity rings. The spincontrolled plasmonics via spinoptical metasurfaces provides a route for spinbased surfaceintegrated photonic nanodevices and light matter interaction control, extending the light manipulation. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantization of plasma oscillations, just like phonons are quantizations of mechanical vibrations. Using these onchip light concentration techniques, the light energy is coupled from a photonic. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the geballe laboratory for advanced materials at stanford university. Transformation plasmonics renders a viable path toward the realization of onchip transformation nanophotonic devices 5,6,7,8. Finitewidth plasmonic waveguides with hyperbolic multilayer. Figure 1 shows a sketch and an scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated device and its use as a chemical sensor. Wenshan cai joined the faculty of the georgia institute of technology in january 2012 as an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, with a joint appointment in materials science and engineering.

Sep 23, 2011 plasmonics provides a route to develop ultracompact optical devices on a chip by using extreme light concentration and the ability to perform simultaneous electrical and optical functions. Light manipulation with encoded plasmonic nanostructures chenglong zhao1,a, jiasen zhang1,2, and yongmin liu3,4, 1 state key laboratory for mesoscopic physics, department of physics, peking university, beijing 100871, china 2 collaborative innovation center of quantum matter, beijing 100871, china 3 department of mechanical and industrial engineering, northeastern university, boston ma. Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation article pdf available in nature materials 93. Most of the tested experimental configurations consider laser light of submicron wavelength at moderate intensity 12 w cmi and concentration of light energy into nmsized volumes, which also open up new, exciting avenues in sensing, detection, imaging and manipulation techniques at the nanoscale, as well as in the fields of quantum optics and optomechanics.

An efficient largearea grating coupler for surface plasmon. Hybrid metaldielectric nanocavity for enhanced lightmatter interactions yousif a. The attractiveness of tin for practical device applications is illustrated by its extensive use in semiconductor manufacturing as both a gate layer and a diffusion barrier, largescale integrated microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems mems, and biotechnology. Pdf the unprecedented ability of nanometallic that is, plasmonic structures to concentrate light into deepsubwavelength volumes has. The proposed electrical manipulation of light using quantum plasmonics establishes a new platform for many practical applications in optoelectronics. This has opened up a wide range of applications based on extreme light concentration3, including nanophotonic lasers and. The onchip sensor comprises a laser, an spp waveguide and a detector, monolithically integrated onto the same substrate. Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation schuller, jon a. The main concept in plasmonics is to confine or manipulate light in a metal dielectric interface or on the surface of nanostructures.

So light can becurrently communication systems used to excite them on the surfaceare based on either electronics or of a material in a localized regime. Early applications included the development of high. The fields of photonic crystals and plasmonics have taken two different approaches to increasing lightmatter interaction. Schuller, edward barnard, wenshan cai, young chul jun, justin white, and mark l. Plasmonic coaxial waveguidecavity devices amirreza mahigir,1,2 pouya dastmalchi,1,2 wonseok shin,3 shanhui fan,3 and georgios veronis1,2. Nanostructuring of solid surface by extreme ultraviolet. Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic. The light emitted from the laser is coupled to a surface wave that propagates via the plasmon waveguide to the detector. Plasmonics provides a unique setting for the manipulation of light via the confinement of the electromagnetic field to regions well below the diffraction limit1,2. Design of photonic crystal cavities for extreme light.

Plasmonic mode converter for controlling optical impedance. Institute of photonics technologies, national tsing hua university, hsinchu 300, taiwan. Coupling of spin and angular momentum of light in plasmonic vortex seongwoo cho,1 junghyun park,1 seungyeol lee,1 hwi kim,2 and byoungho lee1, 1. Photonic crystal cavities increase temporal confinement of light in a material, as represented by their high quality factor, while plasmonic structures increase spatial confinement, as represented by their low mode volume. Add your email address to receive free newsletters from scirp. Light manipulation with encoded plasmonic nanostructures. Osa efficient unidirectional and broadband vertical. Realizing structural color generation with aluminum plasmonic vgroove metasurfaces. Substrateinduced interfacial plasmonics for photovoltaic. Shalaginov,1 satoshi ishii,1,3 alexandra boltasseva,1,4 and alexander v. Electromagnetic crystals for surface plasmonpolaritons and the extraction of light from emissive devices.

Hybridization of singular plasmons via transformation optics pnas. Plasmonics yields efficient electron transport via. Kildishev1, 1school of electrical and computer engineering and bi rck nanotechnology center, purdue university, 1205 west. An efficient largearea grating coupler for surface. Such extreme light concentration is on par with plasmonic resonators yet the. The key features of plasmonic waveguides are strong local field enhancement several orders of magnitude and concentration of light energy into nmsized volumes, which also open up new, exciting avenues in sensing, detection, imaging and manipulation techniques at the nanoscale, as well as in the fields of quantum optics and optomechanics. Manipulating lightmatter interactions in plasmonic nanoparticle.