Resonantly enhanced transmission of light through subwavelength apertures with dielectric filling

Using both analytical and numerical methods to study transmission of light through dielectric-filled subwavelength apertures in a real metal, we have found that a propagating mode can in principle exist inside a waveguide of arbitrary small size if a particular relationship between the dielectric constants of the cladding and filling materials at the incident frequency is satisfied. Practical transmission through a subwavelength aperture of finite depth can be enhanced when the depth is such that Fabry-Pérot-like resonances are excited. For 810 nm light incident on a silicon-filled 50-nm-diameter aperture in a 200-nm-thick gold film, we found that a normalized near-field intensity ratio of 1.6 at the exit can be achieved. This resonantly enhanced transmission phenomenon may be advantageously applicable to near-field scanning optical microscopy and single-molecule spectroscopy.     

Plasmon-phonon coupling in graphene-hyperbolic bilayer heterostructures

Polar dielectrics are important optical materials enabling the subwavelength manipulation of light in infrared due to their capability to excite phonon polaritons.In practice,it is highly desired to actively modify these hyperbolic phonon polaritons(HPPs) to optimize or tune the response of the device.In this work,we investigate the plasmonic material,a monolayer graphene,and study its hybrid structure with three kinds of hyperbolic thin films grown on SiO_2 substrate.The inter-mode hybridization and their tunability have been thoroughly clarified from both the band dispersions and the mode patterns numerically calculated through a transfer matrix method.Our results show that these hybrid multilayer structures are of strong potentials for applications in plasmonic waveguides,modulators and detectors in infrared.     

基于几何曲面结构的金属狭缝阵列透镜研究

金属狭缝阵列透镜是一种通过激发和操控表面等离子体激元,突破衍射极限,实现光束调控的纳米光子器件。如何快速、高效地设计具有一定功能的金属狭缝阵列,并且在不影响器件功能的前提下,增大狭缝尺寸,使器件便于加工,是该类器件走向实际应用的关键问题。本文提出一种可以实现光束调控的新的金属狭缝阵列透镜的设计方法,将金属狭缝阵列作成几何曲面结构,可快速、高效地设计透镜,实现光束的调控作用。该方法设计的透镜,金属狭缝尺寸在80 nm,便于设计之后的加工制备,将加速纳米光子器件的实用化。     

提高OLED光导出效率的异形金属光栅的设计与优化

提出一种用于有机电致发光器件(OLED)的双面对称矩形金属光栅电极,采用时域有限差分方法(FDTD)模拟研究了OLED中表面等离子体激元的激发和耦合传输的物理规律和物理机制,详细计算和分析了该光栅结构的周期、槽宽、光栅高度、槽底厚度、入射光的入射角与电极透射效率的关系,并由此优化了结构的几何参数,使金属电极的光导出效率相对于通常的金属银层电极增强了1.77倍,为基于表面等离子体激元的高效光导出器件的优化设计提供了理论依据。     

Focusing performance of small f-number metallic lens with depth-modulated slits

This paper studies a small f-number metallic lens with depth-modulated slits.Slits filled with dielectric between silver plates are designed to produce desired optical phase retardations based on the particular propagation properties of surface plasmon polaritons in nanostructures.Numerical simulation of this structure is performed through the finitedifference time-domain method.Different from the conventional dielectric lens,the metallic lens can be used as a pure phase element without energy loss brought by the light refraction at curved surfaces and total internal reflection.The focusing performance is consequently improved,with larger diffraction efficiency than that of the same shaped dielectric lens.     

A numerical simulation of surface wave excitation in a rectangular planar-type plasma source

The principle of surface wave plasma discharge in a rectangular cavity is introduced simply based on surface plasmon polariton theory. The distribution of surface-wave electric field at the interface of the plasma-dielectric slab is investigated by using the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method (3D-FDTD) with different slot-antenna structures. And the experimental image of discharge with a novel slot antenna array and the simulation of the electric field with this slot antenna array are both displayed. Combined with the distribution of surface wave excitation and experimental results, the numerical simulation performed by using 3D-FDTD is shown to be a useful tool in the computer-aided antenna design for large area planar-type surface-wave plasma sources.     

基于耦合开口方环共振空腔的可控法诺共振研究

基于表面等离子激元理论与金属-介质-金属波导结构提出一个由开口方环共振空腔、挡板及MIM波导组成的波导结构,并使用有限元方法系统地研究了该结构的透射特性.仿真计算结果表明:该结构可以产生法诺共振现象,其共振波长可以通过改变开口方环空腔的长度及开口大小进行调节,该结构敏感度可达1 600nm/RIU,品质因数为1.31×10~5.此外,通过调整方环共振空腔上开口的位置,在波导中产生了双重法诺共振现象,其敏感度可达1 700nm/RIU,品质因数为8.3×10~4.该结构有望在光学集成回路,尤其是纳米生物传感器方面得到比较广泛的应用.     

Quantum many‐body phenomena in coupled cavity arrays

The increasing level of experimental control over atomic and optical systems gained in recent years has paved the way for the exploration of new physical regimes in quantum optics and atomic physics, characterised by the appearance of quantum many‐body phenomena, originally encountered only in condensed‐matter physics, and the possibility of experimentally accessing them in a more controlled manner. In this review article we survey recent theoretical studies concerning the use of cavity quantum electrodynamics to create quantum many‐body systems. Based on recent experimental progress in the fabrication of arrays of interacting micro‐cavities and on their coupling to atomic‐like structures in several different physical architectures, we review proposals on the realisation of paradigmatic many‐body models in such systems, such as the Bose‐Hubbard and the anisotropic Heisenberg models. Such arrays of coupled cavities offer interesting properties as simulators of quantum many‐body physics, including the full addressability of individual sites and the accessibility of inhomogeneous models.     

Magneto-optic phase shift in plasmon propagation along garnet/semiconductor-on-insulator structures

This paper discusses the magneto-optic phase shift in garnet/semiconductor-on-insulator plasmonic waveguides. We consider two structures: (1) Y IG/Si/SiO₂ and (2) Y IG/GaInAsP/AlInAs-oxide. A dispersion relation for the plasmon propagation has been derived and the nonreciprocal phase shift of the fundamental TM mode has been determined at wavelengths of 1.55 μm, 1.5 μm and 1.3 μm.     

Exciton warming in III–V semiconductors and microcavities

We present a time resolved experiment in which we dynamically tailor the occupation and temperature of a photogenerated exciton distribution in QWs by excitation with two delayed picosecond pulses. The modification of the excitonic distribution results in ultrafast changes in the PL dynamics. Our experimental results are well accounted by a quasiequilibrium thermodynamical model, which includes the occupation and momentum distribution of the excitons. We use this model and the two-pulse experimental technique to study the polariton dynamics in InGaAs-based microcavities in the strong coupling regime. In particular, we demonstrate that resonantly injected upper polaritons mainly relax to the lower polariton branch via scattering to large momentum polariton states, producing the warming of the polariton reservoir.