Description of bow-tie nanoantennas excited by localized emitters using conformal transformation
Author(s)
Pacheco-Pena, V
Beruete, M
Fernandez-Dominguez, AI
Luo, Y
Navarro-Cia, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The unprecedented advance experienced by nanofabrication techniques and plasmonics research over the past few years has made possible the realization of nanophotonic systems entering into the so-called strong coupling regime between localized surface plasmon (LSP) modes and quantum emitters. Unfortunately, from a theoretical point of view, the field is hindered by the lack of analytical descriptions of the electromagnetic interaction between strongly hybridized LSP modes and nanoemitters even within the Markovian approximation. This gap is tackled here by exploiting a conformal transformation where a bow-tie nanoantenna excited by a dipole is mapped into a periodic slab–dipole framework whose analytical solution is available. Solving the problem in the transformed space not only provides a straightforward analytical explanation for the original problem (validated using full-wave simulations) but also grants a deep physical insight and simple design guidelines to maximize the coupling between localized dipoles and the bow-tie LSP modes. The results presented here therefore pave the way for a full analytical description of realistic scenarios where quantum dots or dye molecules (modeled beyond a two-level system) are placed near a metallic bow-tie nanoantenna.
Date Issued
2016-06-21
Date Acceptance
2016-06-01
Citation
ACS Photonics, 2016, 3 (7), pp.1223-1232
ISSN
2330-4022
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
1223
End Page
1232
Journal / Book Title
ACS Photonics
Volume
3
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Photonics, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00232
Sponsor
Imperial College London
Identifier
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Grant Number
Junior Research Fellow - Cohort 2012
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Optics
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Physics
conformal transformation
bow-tie
nanoantenna
plasmonic
transformation optics
OPTICAL ANTENNAS
PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES
LIGHT
GENERATION
Publication Status
Published