From plasmonic nanoantennas to split-ring resonators: Tuning scattering strength

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1680-1687

  Pors, Anders ^a   Willatzen, Morten ^a   Albrektsen, Ole ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANORODS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLASMONS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; RING GAGES;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE; GOLD NANOROD; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; NANOANTENNAS; OPTICAL RESONANCE; PLASMONIC; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTORS; QUASI-STATIC; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING STRENGTH; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; STANDING WAVE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77955821693     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001680     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. S. A. Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer, 2007).
2. M. Pelton, J. Aizpurua, and G. Bryant, "Metal-nanoparticle plasmonics," Laser Photonics Rev. 2, 136-159 (2008).
3. T. Søndergaard and S. Bozhevolnyi, "Slow-plasmon resonant nanostructures: Scattering and field enhancement," Phys. Rev. B 75, 073402 (2007).
4. E. N. Economou, "Surface plasmons in thin films," Phys. Rev. 182, 539-554 (1969).
5. J. Dorfmüller, R. Vogelgesang, R. T. Weitz, C. Rockstuhl, C. Etrich, T. Pertsch, F. Lederer, and K. Kern, "Fabry-Pérot resonances in one-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures," Nano Lett. 9, 2372-2377 (2009).
6. T. Søndergaard, J. Beermann, A. Boltasseva, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Slow-plasmon resonant-nanostrip antennas: Analysis and demonstration," Phys. Rev. B 77, 115420 (2008).
7. S. I. Bozhevolnyi and T. Søndergaard, "General properties of slow-plasmon resonant nanostructures: nano-antennas and resonators," Opt. Express 15, 10869-10877 (2007).
8. T. Søndergaard and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Strip and gap plasmon polariton optical resonators," Phys. Status Solidi B 245, 9-19 (2008).
9. J. Jung and T. Søndergaard, "Gap plasmon-polariton nanoresonators: Scattering enhancement and launching of surface plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rev. B 79, 035401 (2009).
10. H. T. Miyazaki and Y. Kurokawa, "Squeezing visible light waves into a 3-nm-thick and 55-nm-long plasmon cavity," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097401 (2006).
11. J. Takahara, S. Yamagishi, H. Taki, A. Morimoto, and T. Kobayashi, "Guiding of a one-dimensional optical beam with nanometer diameter," Opt. Lett. 22, 475-477 (1997).
12. L. Novotny, "Effective wavelength scaling for optical antennas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 266802 (2007).
13. H. Ditlbacher, A. Hohenau, D. Wagner, U. Kreibig, M. Rogers, F. Hofer, F. R. Aussenegg, and J. R. Krenn, "Silver nanowires as surface plasmon resonators," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257403 (2005).
14. S. D. Liu, Z. S. Zhang, and Q. Q. Wang, "High sensitivity and large field enhancement of symmetry broken Au nanorings: effect of multipolar plasmon resonance and propagation," Opt. Express 17, 2906-2917 (2009).
15. C. Rockstuhl, F. Lederer, C. Etrich, T. Zentgraf, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen, "On the reinterpretation of resonances in split-ring-resonators at normal incidence," Opt. Express 14, 8827-8836 (2006).
16. H. Guo, N. Liu, L. Fu, H. Schweizer, S. Kaiser, and H. Giessen, "Thickness dependence of the optical properties of split-ring resonator metamaterials," Phys. Status Solidi B 244, 1256-1261 (2007).
17. J. Zhou, T. Koschny, and C. M. Soukoulis, "Magnetic and electric excitations in split ring resonators," Opt. Express 15, 17881-17890 (2007).
18. S. Linden, C. Enkrich, M. Wegener, J. Zhou, T. Koschny, and C. M. Soukoulis, "Magnetic response of metamaterials at 100 terahertz," Sci.ence 306, 1351-1353 (2004).
19. M. Husnik, M. W. Klein, N. Feth, M. König, J. Niegemann, K. Busch, S. Linden, and M. Wegener, "Absolute extinction cross-section of individual magnetic split-ring resonators," Nat. Photonics 2, 614-617 (2008).
20. D. R. Smith, W. J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Shultz, "Composite medium with simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4184-4187 (2000).
21. A. K. Sarychev and G. Tartakovsky, "Magnetic plasmonic metamaterials in actively pumped host medium and plasmonic nanolaser," Phys. Rev. B 75, 085436 (2007).
22. G. D. Valle, T. Søndergaard, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Efficient suppression of radiation damping in resonant etardation-based plasmonic structures," Phys. Rev. B 79, 113410 (2009).
23. G. D. Valle, T. Søndergaard, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "High-Q plasmonic resonators based on metal split nanocylinders," Phys. Rev. B 80, 235405 (2009).
24. P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, "Optical constants of the noble metals," Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370-4379 (1972).
25. C. F. Bohren and D. R. Huffman, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley, 1983).
26. G. D. Valle, T. Søndergaard, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Plasmon-polariton nano-strip resonators: from visible to infra-red," Opt. Express 16, 6867-6876 (2008).
27. J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, 1962).
28. P. Mühlschlegel, H.-J. Eisler, O. J. F. Martin, B. Hecht, and D. W. Pohl, "Resonant optical antennas," Sci.ence 308, 1607-1609 (2005).
29. P. Berini and J. Lu, "Curved long-range surface plasmonpolariton waveguides," Opt. Express 14, 2365-2371 (2006).
30. Y. Zeng, C. Dineen, and J. V. Moloney, "Magnetic dipole moments in single and coupled split-ring resonators," Phys. Rev. B 81, 075116 (2010).
31. M. Kerker, D. S. Wang, and H. Chew, "Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) by molecules adsorbed at spherical particles: errata," Appl. Opt. 19, 4159-4174 (1980).
32. K. Kneipp, R. R. Dasari, and Y. Wang, "Near-infrared surface-enhanced Raman scattering (NIR SERS) on colloidal silver and gold," Appl. Spectrosc. 48, 951-955 (1994).
33. F. Wang and Y. R. Shen, "General properties of local plasmons in metal nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206806 (2006).
34. E. Feigenbaum and M. Orenstein, "Ultrasmall volume plasmons, yet with complete retardation effects," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163902 (2008).