径向偏振光下的长焦、紧聚焦表面等离子体激元透镜

表面等离子体激元透镜(plasmonic lens, PL)是一种通过激发和操控表面等离子体激元 (SPPs), 突破衍射极限, 实现亚波长紧聚焦的纳米光子器件. 如何实现高效率的紧聚焦及调控, 一直是研究PL的重点. 如果选取电矢量沿径向振动的径向偏振光作为PL的入射光, 可从各个方向激发SPPs, 提高紧聚焦的能量效率. 本文提出了一种在径向偏振光激发下的长焦深、长焦距、亚波长紧聚焦的表面等离子体激元透镜, 该透镜由中心T 形微孔、阶梯形同心环和同心环结构组成. 本文首先利用有限元方法数值分析了中心微孔-同心环结构透镜的聚焦特性, 结果显示径向偏振光由底部入射可高效激发SPPs, 并且中心微孔透射光与散射至自由空间的SPPs由于多光束干涉形成了紧聚焦. 为进一步压缩焦斑、增加焦距、加深焦深、改善透镜聚焦特性, 本文引入中心T形微孔-阶梯形同心环结构, 从而对阶梯表面的SPPs同时提供了相位调制和传播方向的控制. 经过参数优化, 该透镜结构实现了光斑焦深、半高宽、焦距分别是入射光波长的2.5倍、0.388 倍、3.22倍的亚波长紧聚焦; 而且该透镜具有结构紧凑、尺寸小、易于集成的优点, 满足了纳米光子学对于器件微型化和高度集成化的要求. 该研究结果在纳米光子集成、近场光学成像与探测、纳米光刻等相关领域具有潜在的应用价值.     

一种石墨烯波导褶皱激发表面等离子体激元的设计

设计了褶皱石墨烯波导结构激发表面等离子体激元,通过设计周期阵列结构实现了表面等离子体激元传播损耗的补偿.理论分析了周期阵列结构的表面等离子体激元传播模型和补偿损耗的方式,结果表明褶皱衍射激发表面等离子体激元波导不仅能够激发表面等离子体激元,还能利用表面等离子体激元波矢关系实现器件参数控制,周期阵列增益全程补偿损耗的方式可以显著增加表面等离子体激元的传播距离.数值分析结果进一步表明:该结构具备了保持亚波长尺寸的强局域化优势;周期阵列增益全程补偿可以显著提高纳米腔中的电场强度,降低传输损耗;波导结构的粒子反转水平较高,自发辐射噪声的扰动较低.设计的石墨烯波导器件可以为微纳光学集成、光子传感和测量等领域提供理想的亚波长光子器件.     

一种石墨烯波导褶皱激发表面等离子体激元的设计（英文）

设计了褶皱石墨烯波导结构激发表面等离子体激元,通过设计周期阵列结构实现了表面等离子体激元传播损耗的补偿.理论分析了周期阵列结构的表面等离子体激元传播模型和补偿损耗的方式,结果表明褶皱衍射激发表面等离子体激元波导不仅能够激发表面等离子体激元,还能利用表面等离子体激元波矢关系实现器件参数控制,周期阵列增益全程补偿损耗的方式可以显著增加表面等离子体激元的传播距离.数值分析结果进一步表明:该结构具备了保持亚波长尺寸的强局域化优势;周期阵列增益全程补偿可以显著提高纳米腔中的电场强度,降低传输损耗;波导结构的粒子反转水平较高,自发辐射噪声的扰动较低.设计的石墨烯波导器件可以为微纳光学集成、光子传感和测量等领域提供理想的亚波长光子器件.     

矩形纳米狭缝超表面结构的近场增强聚焦调控

为了实现对入射光的近场亚波长增强聚焦,设计了一种由内部矩形纳米狭缝圆环阵列和外部多圆环狭缝构成的超表面结构,得到了该结构激发的表面等离激元电场表达式,并从物理机理上解释了该结构中心聚焦及增强聚焦的原理.利用时域有限差分方法仿真研究了该超表面结构在不同偏振态入射光下的激发场聚焦特性.根据理论推导与仿真结果可得,该结构在波长为980 nm的圆偏振光入射下于近场的金属表面结构中心处生成半高宽为650 nm左右的亚波长聚焦光斑,其场分布为近似的第一类贝塞尔函数.与单一的矩形纳米狭缝圆环阵列结构相比,带有外部多圆环狭缝的复合结构具有更好的增强聚焦效果,使得中心焦斑强度提升了一倍,且更有利于对激发场进行调控.除此之外,还讨论了任意偏振方向的线偏振光入射结构激发的电场,得到了电场的解析表达式,即入射光偏振角的正弦函数包络乘上第一类贝塞尔函数.本文的研究对基于超表面结构的亚波长光调控有一定的指导意义,在光镊、亚波长尺度光信息传输与处理等领域也有一定的应用价值.     

飞秒激光烧蚀硅材料表面形成周期波纹形貌研究

基于Sipe-Drude模型和表面等离子体激元(SPP)的干涉理论分别对单脉冲飞秒激光诱导硅表面形成低频率周期性波纹进行分析研究.探究了波长800 nm、脉宽150 fs的单个飞秒激光烧蚀硅造成不同激发水平下波纹形貌的变化,考虑到材料的光学性质变化(由Drude模型得到的介电常数变化),引入包含双温方程的电子数密度模型.计算结果表明,Sipe-Drude和SPP理论都适用于分析和解释高激发态下周期性波纹,但Sipe-Drude理论更适合分析更为广泛的周期性波纹结构.同时,波纹延伸方向总是垂直于入射激光偏振方向,其空间周期略小于激光波长,并受到入射激光通量的影响.在激光通量为0.38 J/cm~2时,波纹周期达到最小值.另外,还得到了不同入射角度的波纹周期变化情况,并在不同偏振态下随入射角度增大时波纹周期呈现相反的变化趋势.该研究对于理解飞秒激光造成硅表面形成周期结构及其在加工硅材料领域具有重要参考意义.     

基于表面等离子激元波导透射性能的环形滤波器设计

当前对表面等离子体激元(SPP)耦合性能及其传播的研究已成为这一领域急需改进的课题。为了进一步使SPP纳米器件成为可能,利用SPP波导结构设计了一种表面等离子体激元环形滤波器,建立了SPP波导结构传输模型和金属光栅SPP传输模型。透射率仿真分析表明,透射率会随着金属薄膜厚度的变化而变化,当金属薄膜厚度降低时,透射带宽会明显变窄,且透射的峰值也会降低。滤波器结构仿真结果表明,滤波器具有很强的消光效果,在具有有效谐振频率的同时可以更好地实现阻碍非谐振频率。该研究对纳米等离子激元器件的实际应用具有一定的理论和实际意义。     

截面形状对快电子激发纳米双线表面等离激元的影响

采用边界元方法研究了快电子在金属纳米双线中激发间隙表面等离激元(SPP)的性质,比较了在不同横截面形状(包括圆形、尖劈形和不规则形状)下电子所激发SPP的不同.研究表明:在以上波导结构中,快电子都能激发具有较长传播距离和较好局域性的低阶单级-单级耦合的间隙等离激元模式;同时通过对波导无量纲价值参数的比较,发现快电子在纳米双线中激发间隙等离激元对双线波导的横截面形状要求不高,横截面形状真正影响的是高阶等离激元模式的激发,而且快电子在截面形状为尖劈的双线波导中能激发局域性更强的间隙SPP.该研究将对实验中利用 关键词： 表面等离激元 间隙模式 金属纳米波导     

表面等离激元纳米聚焦研究进展

表面等离激元是束缚于金属纳米结构表面的电磁模式,具有突破光学衍射极限和局域场增强等特点.当表面等离激元沿一维锥形纳米结构表面传播时,由于纳米聚焦效应,使得等离激元能量汇聚于锥形结构的纳米尖端,从而在该位置产生巨大的局域场增强.这一现象为电磁场能量在纳米尺度的定向输送提供了十分有效的路径,在分子光谱增强及传感领域得到广泛的应用.本文对近年来表面等离激元纳米聚焦在纳米光子学领域的研究进展进行了综述,并展望了这一领域未来的发展方向.     

多圆孔周期性银膜阵列结构的光学特性

提出一种多圆孔周期性银膜阵列结构,并利用时域有限差分算法探究该结构的光学特性。计算结果表明,当线性偏振光入射时,该结构表面激发出表面等离激元,且纳米孔间产生了局部表面等离子体共振,使得该结构的异常透射增强。针对这一现象,通过对中心孔与边孔所呈角度、入射光偏振角度、结构参数(中心孔直径、边孔直径、结构厚度、边孔与中心孔的间距)的调控来实现结构光学透射属性的优化。此外,分析所提结构在不同环境折射率条件下透射峰的变化规律,发现该结构也对周围的环境折射率具有较高的敏感度。因此该结构在表面等离激元滤波器和折射率传感器中具有广泛的应用前景。     

金纳米柱阵列表面等离子体激元与J-聚集分子强耦合作用

采用脱模工艺制备了表面光滑的金纳米柱阵列结构,这种加工方法操作简单、可重复性强,可以将形貌相同的纳米柱阵列结构大批量复制到不同衬底上.采用这种金纳米柱阵列结构激发表面等离子体激元并实现了其与J-聚集染料分子的强耦合作用.在所制备的杂化耦合体系中,观测到了200 meV的拉比劈裂值.进一步通过调节金纳米柱阵列的周期来改变耦合强度,在反射谱中观测到了强耦合存在的标志性实验证据:耦合杂化态对应能量的反交叉曲线.这种简单并可以大批量制备的强耦合杂化体系对于促进强耦合作用在纳米等离子体器件中的广泛应用具有积极意义.     

Experimental Research on Focusing Property of Radially Polarized Beam Based on Solid Immersion Lens

Realization of a near-field optical virtual probe based on an evanescent Bessel beam is strongly dependent on a radially polarized beam; this makes it essential to study the focusing property of the beam. In this paper, two experimental setups based on a fiber device and a liquid crystal device, respectively, are built to generate a radially polarized beam. This beam and an annular radially polarized beam are focused by means of a high numerical aperture objective and a solid immersion lens (SIL). Near-field distribution of the focus spot, the evanescent Bessel field, is experimentally measured with a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM). The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the central peak of the evanescent Bessel field is about 200 nm in the close vicinity of the bottom surface of SIL. This has potential for use as a near-field optical virtual probe.     

Controllable and switchable chiral near-fields in symmetric graphene metasurfaces

A strong chiral near-field plays significant roles in the detection, separation and sensing of chiral molecules. In this paper, a simple and symmetric metasurface is proposed to generate strong chiral near-fields with both circularly polarized light and linearly polarized light illuminations in the mid-infrared region. Owing to the near-field interaction between plasmonic resonant modes of two nanosheets excited by circularly polarized light, there is a strong single-handed chiral near-field in the gap between the two graphene nanosheets and the maximum enhancement of the optical chirality could reach two orders of magnitude. As expected, the intensity and the response wavelength of the chiral near-fields could be controlled by the Fermi level and geometrical parameters of the graphene nanosheets, as well as the permittivity of the substrate. Meanwhile, based on the interaction between the incident field and scattered field, the one-handed chiral near-field in the gap also could be generated by the linearly polarized light excitation. For the two cases, the handedness of the chiral near-field could be switched by the polarized direction of the incident light. These results have potential opportunities for applications in molecular detection and sensing.     

Scattering properties of an individual metallic nano-spheroid by the incident polarized light wave

The scattering properties of a metallic nano-spheroid under the illumination of different polarized light waves are investigated using 3D boundary element method. The influences of different geometrical sizes of the nano-spheroid and incident directions of the illuminating light wave on the scattering spectrum are studied for different incident polarized light waves. The results show that the metallic nano-spheroid has two intrinsic resonant modes, corresponding to different polarization states and resonant wavelengths. The scattering enhancement, the resonant wavelength, and the location of the enhanced optical field are strongly dependent on the polarization properties of the illuminating light waves, and they can be modulated by appropriately choosing the polarization directions of the incident light wave.     

基于晶体旋光效应的近场光学空间滤波

 在激光传输与放大系统中，激光束的空间滤波是光束质量控制的重要环节。利用各向同性晶体的旋光性，采用偏振光检偏法选择不同空间频率光束的通过与阻挡，实现激光光束的近场空间滤波。用多个滤波器串接构成滤波器组，可提高光束空间窄带滤波性能。该方法有利于克服激光工程中采用4f滤波带来的空间滤波器体积庞大与抽空耗能的缺点。     

纺织纤维光散射特性的模拟与实验

纺织纤维的光散射特性在纺织材料微观结构、光学性质以及无损检测中至关重要。利用纺织纤维各向异性的结构特点改进现有的角谱展开法,得到纺织纤维对倾斜入射平面波的散射以及表征其光散射特性的Mueller矩阵。采用蒙特卡罗算法模拟了平行棉纤维束对倾斜入射偏振光的多次散射,并对其计算结果进行了实验验证。结果表明理论计算和实验测量的散射光斑在形状特征、光强分布上均一致,从而验证了蒙特卡洛方法模拟纺织纤维光散射的正确性。结果同时也表明蒙特卡罗方法在纺织材料光传播特性的理论研究中具有重要的指导意义。     

Focal shift of three-portion concentric piecewise cylindrical vector beam

Focal shift of a concentric piecewise cylindrical vector beam is investigated by means of vector diffractive theory. A section of the beam consists of three concentric portions. The center circle portion and outer annular portion are radial polarized, and the inner annular portion is generalized polarized. The phase of the inner annular portion is tunable. For certain geometric parameters of the beam, the focal shift occurs and can be adjusted by phase shift and polarized direction of the inner annular portion. For some cases, a three-peak focal pattern may occur, and peaks shift in the same direction, and one local minimum also shifts. For some other cases, a two-peak focal pattern may occur with shifting peaks. The tunable quantitative focal shift is investigated in detail.     

Concentric piecewise azimuthally polarized beam by a pure phase plate

Focusing properties of the azimuthally polarized beam induced by a pure phase plate are investigated theoretically. The pure phase plate consists of two concentric portions, one center circle portion and one outer annular portion, through which the azimuthally polarized beam passed evolves into concentric piecewise azimuthally polarized beam. When the phase shift of the center portion is π, one ring focus may evolve into novel focal patterns with increasing radius of the center circle portion, such as cylindrical crust focus, two-ring focus, and three-ring focus. And if the geometrical parameters are unchanged, focal patterns also changes considerably with tunable phase of the center portion. Ring focus shifts along the optical axis on the increasing phase. Some optical gradient force distributions and dependence of focal shift on phase shift are also illustrated. This kind of concentric piecewise azimuthally polarized beam can be used in optical manipulation technology.     

投影光学系统中的偏振像差分析

当光束斜入射时,光学薄膜存在一定的偏振效应。在飞利浦棱镜系统中,当一定大小孔径角的照明光束斜入射到分色合色薄膜后,S偏振分量和P偏振分量存在一定的相位差,使得线偏振光变成椭圆偏振光。利用琼斯矩阵偏振光线追迹的方法,分析了投影光学系统中由于两偏振分量相位差引起的偏振像差,以及它与暗态泄漏光强和系统衬比度的关系。得出了系统出瞳面上的光波偏振特性,以及在不同大小孔径角的照明光束入射下偏振像差的变化。分析了膜厚监控误差对光学系统偏振像差的影响,发现膜厚监控误差对偏振像差和系统衬比度有很大的影响。所使用的分析方法可以应用于其他大口径光学系统。     

Smallest focal hole

We study theoretically routes toward the most confined dark channel that can be obtained using high angular aperture focusing. One possible solution is to use a radially polarized beam combined with an optical singularity. Another possibility is to use an azimuthally polarized light beam combined with an annular aperture or a phase filter. Our results suggest that a focal hole of full-width at half maximum of approximately 0.3λ₀/NA is achievable, where λ₀ is the wavelength in vacuum and NA is the numerical aperture of the focusing system. Finally, we show that by letting a phase-shifted plane wave and a focused scalar wave interfere only one point in the focal plane will exhibit zero intensity. Advantages and disadvantages of the schemes are discussed.     

Investigation of ultrafast plasmon control in silver block by PEEM

We carried out in situ imaging of ultrafast plasmonic near-field control within silver block through photoemission electron microscope (PEEM) combined with picosecond laser pulses. It is found that the near-field distribution can be confined at the edges of the block, and efficiently localized to different edges depending on the polarization direction of the illuminating laser light. In particular, the localized near-field will switch from the upper edge to the lower one in the block when the polarization angle of the laser is changed from 45 to 135°. Furthermore, we found that, due to the restriction to electron oscillation by the edge of the block, the photoemission yield is greatly enhanced in the edge that is perpendicular to the polarization direction of the laser. In addition, we also discussed the mechanism responsible for brightness difference between the left and upper/down edges in PEEM images under s- and p-polarized ultrafast laser illumination. Our findings pave the way for ultrafast plasmon application in the fields such as optical switches, logic operation and others.