Near-field polarization shaping by a near-resonant plasmonic cross antenna

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Biagioni, Paolo ^a,b   Savoini, Matteo ^b   Huang, Jer Shing ^a   Duò, Lamberto ^b   Finazzi, Marco ^b   Hecht, Bert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449107741     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.153409     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. S. A. Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer, New York, 2007).
2. L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-Optics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2006).
3. P. Mühlschlegel, H.-J. Eisler, O. J. F. Martin, B. Hecht, and D. W. Pohl, Science 308, 1607 (2005). 10.1126/science.1111886
4. J. N. Farahani, D. W. Pohl, H.-J. Eisler, and B. Hecht, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 017402 (2005). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.017402
5. P. J. Schuck, D. P. Fromm, A. Sundaramurthy, G. S. Kino, and W. E. Moerner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 017402 (2005). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017402
6. T. H. Taminiau, R. J. Moerland, F. B. Segerink, L. Kuipers, and N. F. van Hulst, Nano Lett. 7, 28 (2007). 10.1021/nl061726h
7. O. L. Muskens, V. Giannini, J. A. Sánchez-Gil, and J. Gómez Rivas, Nano Lett. 7, 2871 (2007). 10.1021/nl0715847
8. E. Cubukcu, E. A. Kort, K. B. Crozier, and F. Capasso, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 093120 (2006). 10.1063/1.2339286
9. J. S. Huang, T. Feichtner, P. Biagioni, and B. Hecht, Nano Lett. 9, 1897 (2009). 10.1021/nl803902t
10. B. Lounis and M. Orrit, Rep. Prog. Phys. 68, 1129 (2005). 10.1088/0034-4885/68/5/R04
11. R. M. Azzam and N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and Polarized Light (Elsevier Science Ltd., Amsterdam, 1999).
12. Z. Q. Qiu and S. D. Bader, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 200, 664 (1999). 10.1016/S0304-8853(99)00311-X
13. C. D. Stanciu, F. Hansteen, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, and Th. Rasing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047601 (2007). 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 99.047601
14. P. Biagioni, J. S. Huang, L. Duò, M. Finazzi, and B. Hecht, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256801 (2009). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.256801
15. A. Drezet, C. Genet, and T. W. Ebbesen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043902 (2008). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.043902
16. T. Li, H. Liu, S.-M. Wang, X.-G. Yin, F.-M. Wang, S.-N. Zhu, and X. Zhang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 021110 (2008). 10.1063/1.2958214
17. R. Kullock, W. R. Hendren, A. Hille, S. Grafström, P. R. Evans, R. J. Pollard, R. Atkinson, and L. M. Eng, Opt. Express 16, 21671 (2008). 10.1364/OE.16.021671
18. FDTD SOLUTIONS v. 6.0.5, Lumerical Solutions Inc., Vancouver, Canada.
19. Tapering is introduced to better adhere to realistic structuring conditions, where we envisage to realize the gap of the cross antenna via focused-ion beam milling by two perpendicular cuts oriented at ±45°.
20. P. G. Etchegoin, E. C. Le Ru, and M. Meyer, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 164705 (2006). 10.1063/1.2360270
21. T. H. Taminiau, F. D. Stefani, F. B. Segerink, and N. F. van Hulst, Nat. Photonics 2, 234 (2008). 10.1038/nphoton.2008.32
22. P. Biagioni, J. N. Farahani, P. Mühlschlegel, H.-J. Eisler, D. W. Pohl, and B. Hecht, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 016103 (2008). 10.1063/1.2834875
23. T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A. T. Friberg, Phys. Rev. E 66, 016615 (2002). 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.016615
24. See EPAPS Document No. E-PRBMDO-80-064939. Figure: plot of the degrees of polarization S1 /I and S2 /I. For more information on EPAPS, see http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html.