Article antihermitian photodetector facilitating ef. Focusing beyond the diffraction limit with farfield time reversal. Subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles core. Subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles. The requirement to trap a particle is the light focusing at the fiber end, so that an optical gradient. In the plasmonic waveguide, the light can be guided along the. Not only can we strongly enhance the efficiency of smithpurcell radiation, but also the amplitude, phase, and polarization state of the radiated wave can be fully manipulated by tuning the structure and fermi level of the graphene metasurface. The correlations between the torches also allow the determination of the complex. Baumgartl j, kosmeier s, mazilu m, rogers etf, zheludev ni, dholakia k. To that aim, we use the concept of timereversal focusing22,23. Here, we report an approach to trap and detect nanoparticles and subwavelength cells at low optical power using a parallel photonic nanojet array produced by assembling microlenses on an optical fiber probe. Goodson3, robert sinclair4, shanhui fan5, pieter g.
Currently, most plasmonic colorgraded systems are intrinsically discrete because. Controlling the phase and amplitude of plasmon sources at. The ability of plasmonic materials and particles to generate a large dos in their. Louis, missouri 63, usa 2department of biomedical engineering, washington university in st. This approach is solely based on the interactions of light with the nanosphere, which is a simple and costeffective approach to generate complex subwavelength light intensity patterns. A dual focused ion beam instrument is employed to mill the slits and deposit sio 2 into the slits. Optical scatterfield microscopy combined with fourier domain analysis permits image reconstruction of features on a deepsubwavelength scale.
The slits structure is designed with equal distance, length, and width, but filled with variant thickness sio 2 dielectric for specific phase retardations. However, most previously demonstrated metasurface designs suffer from low coupling efficiency and are based on metallic resonators, leading to ohmic loss. Monochromatic light from a subwavelength source is scattered by random nanoparticles, and the scattered light is phase conjugated at the far. When light enters a subwavelength dielectric structure in a metallic. Subwavelength dynamic focusing in plasmonic nanostructures using time reversal guy bartal,1 geoffroy lerosey,1, and xiang zhang1,2, 1nsf nanoscale science and engineering center nsec, 5 etcheverry hall, university of california, berkeley, california 947201740, usa 2materials sciences division, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, 1 cyclotron road, berkeley, california 94720, usa. Trapping and detection of nanoparticles and cells using a. Pdf subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles. Pdf far field subwavelength focusing using optical. Obtaining subwavelength optical spots using nanoscale. Creating and positioning isolated subwavelength energy hot spots t. Federico capasso is the robert wallace professor of applied physics at harvard univ.
In turn, wavelength and subwavelengthscale particles support quantized. Trapping and stoppingcooling of atoms, particles, and bio. Realization of a subwavelength focused spot without a. Plasmonic colorgraded systems are devices featuring a spatially variable plasmonic response over their surface. Subwavelength structures are produced in this study by using a laser beam and microdroplets that carry nanoparticles to the deposition substrate.
Plasmonic metasurfaces have recently attracted much attention due to their ability to abruptly change the phase of light, allowing subwavelength optical elements for polarization and wavefront control. Subwavelength focusing using plasmonic wavelengthlaunched. Controlling waves in space and time for imaging and. The timereversal of the scattered farfield rewinds the scrambled paths of the propagating optical waves in a disordered medium, and it couples to. The plasmonic structure consists of a central circular groove surrounded by 12 transparent and opaque zones. Subwavelength dynamic focusing in plasmonic nanostructures. To test the possibilities offered by our lens, we first use it to generate deep subwavelength focal spots from the farfield. Zheludev1, 1optoelectronics research centre and centre for photonic metamaterials, university of southampton, southampton so17 1bj, united kingdom.
Subwavelength light focusing and imaging via wavefront shaping. One of the technical challenges of this method is the low transmission efficiency of light through nano holes, even in the case of employing metal coating. We demonstrate an efficient method for farfield subwavelength focusing by a novel twocomponent axicon structure. Monochromatic light from a subwavelength source is scattered by random nanoparticles, and the scattered light is phase conjugated at the farfield region by.
Obtaining subwavelength optical spots using nanoscale ridge apertures concentrating light into a nanometer domain is needed for optically based materials processing at the nanoscale. The chapter then covers the trapping and manipulation of particles in intermediate microto nano scale size optical tweezer. The resulting spp patterns and their polarization dependence are accurately described in model calculations based on a dipolar. Nearfield scanning optical microscopy is used to map the local spp intensity.
Surface plasmons at the metaldielectric interface have emerged as an important candidate to propagate and localize light at subwavelength scales. Orientational imaging of subwavelength au particles with. This surface wave is of central interest in the field of plasmonics. Although the particlediffusion approach and radiative transfer theory 21 neglect. Then the chapter treats the other extreme of using laser light, exploiting the doppler effect, augmented by magnets to trap, stop, and cool atoms to verylow temperature, approaching the absolute zero temperature.
Timereversing a monochromatic subwavelength optical focus by. Subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles, nat. Benefiting from the subwavelength confinement of the photonic nanojets, tens to hundreds of nanotraps were formed in three dimensions. We propose a plasmonic wavelengthlaunched fresnel zone plate structure for subwavelength focusing. The constructive interference of surface plasmon polaritons spp launched by nanometric holes allows us to focus spp into a spot of high nearfield intensity having subwavelength width. It should be noted, in this connection, that the di. Efficient subwavelength focusing of light with a long. In summary, we demonstrated the regeneration of a subwavelength optical focus using random nanoparticles and pcm, which is in principle the timereversal of a monochromatic light wave. Wang,2 and jungtsung shen1,b 1department of electrical and systems engineering, washington university in st. Experiment and simulation of a selective subwavelength. Despite its low index contrast, our simulation and experiments show that good optical selectivity is achieved using the same physics as subwavelength gratings made of highindex contrast.
The focus affects the path of nanoparticles passing by and a quadrant detector records the. Subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles by junghoon park, chunghyun park, hyeonseung yu, jimin park, seungyong han, jonghwa shin, seung hwan ko, ki tae nam, yonghoon cho and yongkeun park. Superfocusing of visible and uv light using a meta surface. Ultrasonic superoscillation wavepackets with an acoustic. In this work, we report the ondemand control of smithpurcell radiation by rationally designed graphene metasurfaces. Timereversing a monochromatic subwavelength optical focus. Optical phase front control in a metallic grating with equally spaced alternately tapered slits zheng gaige, wu yigen and xu linhuaremote focusing of a light beam nikolai i petrovrecent citations subwavelength focusing in the infrared. Controlling the phase and amplitude of plasmon sources at a subwavelength scale g. Because of the conjugation the subwavelength nanoparticles particles that we detect are located close to the focus of the microscope. The coherent control of plasmonic nanoantennas using this approach shows an almost zero crosstalk. Subwavelength directwrite nanopatterning using optically. By using this confocal approach, the light collected to form the image is dominated by that scattered from the central subwavelength spot. Laser writing of a subwavelength structure on silicon 100. Due to the random structure of the highly scattering media there are no.
Digitally addressable focusing of light into a subwavelength hot spot. Using superoscillations for superresolved imaging and. A polychromatic approach to farfield superlensing at. Nanoscale patterns on rigid or flexible substrates are of considerable interest in modern nanophotonics and optoelectronics devices. This consists of recording the temporal greens function from a point to a set of detectors. Far field subwavelength focusing using optical eigenmodes. The future success of semiconductor technology relies on the continuing reduction of the feature size, allowing more components per chip and higher speed. Interference of optically induced electric and magnetic modes in highindex alldielectric nanoparticles offers unique opportunities for tailoring directional scattering and engineering the flow of light. By decomposing the light field into optical eigenmodes, specifically tailored to the nanostructure, we create a subwavelength, selective and dynamic control of the incident light. Nearfield observation of light propagation in nanocoax waveguides. A tradeoff between speckle size and intensity enhancement of a. The qrbs are embedded in a complex medium consisting of randomly distributed tio 2 nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 21 nm. Laser science has been successful in producing increasingly highpowered, faster and smaller coherent light sources 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Light propagation in complex media is often described as the diffusion of particles that perform a random walk.
Deep subwavelength optical imaging using correlated nano torches yuecheng shen,1,a lihong v. The optical properties of metallic nanoparticles with plasmon resonances have been studied extensively, typically by measuring the transmission of light, as a function of wavelength, through a. Subwavelength spectroscopy, exciton supertips and mesoscopic lightmatterinteractions raoul kopelman, weihong tan, duane birnbaum department of chemistry, university of michigan, ann arbor, m148109, usa abstract subwavelength optical light sources and probes are leading to new devices, technologies and techniques such as. Designing quantum resonant scatterers at subwavelength scale. Deep subwavelength nanometric image reconstruction using. Subwavelength directwrite nanopatterning using optically trapped microspheres euan mcleod and craig b. At appropriate conditions, a single subwavelength slit. By using different illumination conditions, this can result in subwavelength patterning with feature size around. This process recreates a conventional confocal microscope 5255, but with a superoscillatory focusing lens, and using an electronic pinhole, rather than a physical aperture. A plasmonic lens composed of a dielectricfilled nanoslits structure on an aluminum film is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Subwavelength light focusing using random nanoparticles article pdf available in nature photonics 76. Controlling waves in space and time for imaging and focusing in.
Farfield subwavelength focusing of light using time reversal. Subwavelength transportation of light with atomic resonances. Coherent control of plasmonic nanoantennas using optical. By tailoring the geometry and arrangement of metallic nanoarchitectures, propagating and localized surface plasmons can be obtained. Here, the authors propose an ultrasonic metalens for generating superoscillation wave packets with different spatial momenta and then superimposing them to a. Subwavelength focusing and guiding of surface plasmons. Tailoring directional scattering through magnetic and. The concept of optical phase discontinuities is applied to the design and demonstration of aberrationfree planar lenses and axicons, comprising a phased array of ultrathin subwavelengthspaced optical antennas. Brongersma1,4 the ability to split an incident light beam into separate wavelength bands is central to a. Aberrationfree ultrathin flat lenses and axicons at. Quantum reference beaconguided superresolution optical. Annular beams generated by a fiber axicon are focused using a microcone reflector, creating a quasibessel beam with a high convergence angle.
In this article we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the interference of electric and magnetic optically induced modes in individual subwavelength silicon nanodisks can lead. Detection of nanoparticles using optical gradient forces. Coherent control of nanoscale light localization in metamaterial. Focusing beyond the diffraction limit is achieved by using elastic light scattering from a highly turbid medium to convert propagating farfield components into nearfield wave vectors. An approach is presented for subwavelength focusing of microwaves using both a timereversal mirror placed in the far field and a random distribution of scatterers placed in the near field of the focusing point. Coherent control of nanoscale light localization in. Nearfield observation of light propagation in nanocoax.
Another nano light localized structure is sharp metallic tips with ultrasmall curvature, which behave like a lightning rod and facilitate in concentrating light energy around the tip apex. Subwavelength light focusing of plasmonic lens with. Realization of a subwavelength focused spot without a longitudinal field component in a solid immersion lensbased system kun huang1,2 and yongping li1, 1department of optics and optical engineering, university of science and technology of china, hefei, anhui 230026, china. The coupling of light to collective oscillation of electrons on the metal surface allows the creation of surface plasmonpolariton wave. Abstractit is now wellappreciated that a bandlimited wave can possess oscillations much more rapidly than those predicted by the bandlimit itself, in a phenomenon known as superoscillation. These droplets are generated from an aqueous suspension of nanoparticles by electrospray and dispensed through a. Such superoscillations are required to be of dramatically smaller amplitude than the signal they are embedded in, and this has initially led researchers to consider them of limited use in applications. Fullfield interferometry for counting and differentiating aquatic biotic. The size of the focus is observed to be consistent at different positions and different level of optimization. Accordingly, the dos of isotropic bulk dielectric for both light polarizations is d.
We report the focusing of light to generate a subdiffractive, subwavelength focal spot of full width half maximum 222 nm at an operating wavelength of 633 nm using an optical eigenmode approach. Antihermitian photodetector facilitating efficient. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally realize a selective subwavelength grating using an index contrast of. Recent progress in nearfield nanolithography using light. Optical metamaterialbased hyperlens exhibit the ability for spatial pattern compression from the micro to nanoscale, potentially addressing the everincreasing demand of photolithograpy for inexpensive, alloptical nanoscale pattern. Deep subwavelength optical imaging using correlated nano. Conventional nanometersized apertures suffer from low light transmission, therefore poor near.
Meixner institute of physical and theoretical chemistry, university of tuebingen. The lenses and axicons consist of vshaped nanoantennas that introduce a radial distribution of phase discontinuities, thereby generating respectively spherical wavefronts and. Orientational imaging of subwavelength au particles with higher order laser modes antonio virgilio failla, hui qian, huihong qian, achim hartschuh, and alfred j. The authors propose and numerically demonstrate an ultrahigh resolution wavelength50.
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