Numerical studies of the modification of photodynamic processes by film-coupled plasmonic nanoparticles

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2601-2607

  Ciracì, Cristian ^a,b   Rose, Alec ^b   Argyropoulos, Christos ^b   Smith, David R ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM YIELD;

COUPLED NANOPARTICLES; ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NON-RADIATIVE CHANNELS; PHOTODYNAMIC PROCESS;

PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84911034070     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: 15208540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.002601     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. E. M. Purcell, "Spontaneous emission probabilities at radio frequencies," Phys. Rev. 69, 681 (1946).
2. K. H. Drexhage, "Interaction of light with monomolecular dye lasers," Prog. Opt. 12, 163-232 (1974).
3. E. Fort and S. Grésillon, "Surface enhanced fluorescence," J. Phys. D 41, 013001 (2008).
4. F. De Martini, M. Marrocco, P. Mataloni, and R. Loudon, "Spontaneous emission in the optical microscopic cavity," Phys. Rev. A 43, 2480-2497 (1991).
5. E. Petrov, V. Bogomolov, I. Kalosha, and S. Gaponenko, "Spontaneous emission of organic molecules embedded in a photonic crystal," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 77-80 (1998).
6. W. P. Ambrose, P. M. Goodwin, R. A. Keller, and J. C. Martin, "Alterations of single molecule fluorescence lifetimes in nearfield optical microscopy," Science 265, 364-367 (1994).
7. X. S. Xie and R. C. Dunn, "Probing single molecule dynamics," Science 265, 361-364 (1994).
8. P. Anger, P. Bharadwaj, and L. Novotny, "Enhancement and quenching of single-molecule fluorescence," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113002 (2006).
9. A. Kinkhabwala, Z. Yu, S. Fan, Y. Avlasevich, K. Mullen, and W. E. Moerner, "Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna," Nat. Photonics 3, 654-657 (2009).
10. R. Filter, K. Sowik, J. Straubel, F. Lederer, and C. Rockstuhl, "Nanoantennas for ultrabright single photon sources," Opt. Lett. 39, 1246-1249 (2014).
11. R. M. Bakker, V. P. Drachev, Z. Liu, H.-K. Yuan, R. H. Pedersen, A. Boltasseva, J. Chen, J. Irudayaraj, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, "Nanoantenna array-induced fluorescence enhancement and reduced lifetimes," New J. Phys. 10, 125022 (2008).
12. J. H. Burroughes, D. D. C. Bradley, A. R. Brown, R. N. Marks, K. Mackay, R. H. Friend, P. L. Burns, and A. B. Holmes, "Lightemitting diodes based on conjugated polymers," Nature 347, 539-541 (1990).
13. I. D. W. Samuel, B. Crystall, G. Rumbles, P. L. Burn, A. B. Holmes, and R. H. Friend, "The efficiency and time-dependence of luminescence from poly (p-phenylene vinylene) and derivatives," Chem. Phys. Lett. 213, 472-478 (1993).
14. N. Tessler, G. J. Denton, and R. H. Friend, "Lasing from conjugated- polymer microcavities," Nature 382, 695-697 (1996).
15. J. Claudon, J. Bleuse, N. S. Malik, M. Bazin, P. Jaffrennou, N. Gregersen, C. Sauvan, P. Lalanne, and J.-M. Gerard, "A highly efficient single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a photonic nanowire," Nat. Photonics 4, 174-177 (2010).
16. E. Le Moal, S. Marguet, B. Rogez, S. Mukherjee, P. Dos Santos, E. Boer-Duchemin, G. Comtet, and G. Dujardin, "An electrically excited nanoscale light source with active angular control of the emitted light," Nano Lett. 13, 4198-4205 (2013).
17. A. G. Curto, T. H. Taminiau, G. Volpe, M. P. Kreuzer, R. Quidant, and N. F. van Hulst, "Multipolar radiation of quantum emitters with nanowire optical antennas," Nat. Commun. 4, 1750 (2013).
18. T. Kosako, Y. Kadoya, and H. F. Hofmann, "Directional control of light by a nano-optical Yagi-Uda antenna," Nat. Photonics 4, 312-315 (2010).
19. J. B. Khurgin, G. Sun, and R. A. Soref, "Electroluminescence efficiency enhancement using metal nanoparticles," Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 021120 (2008).
20. G. Sun, J. B. Khurgin, and R. A. Soref, "Practicable enhancement of spontaneous emission using surface plasmons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 111107 (2007).
21. I. Larkin, M. Stockman, M. Achermann, and V. Klimov, "Dipolar emitters at nanoscale proximity of metal surfaces: Giant enhancement of relaxation in microscopic theory," Phys. Rev. B 69, 121403 (2004).
22. K. J. Russell, T.-L. Liu, S. Cui, and E. L. Hu, "Large spontaneous emission enhancement in plasmonic nanocavities," Nat. Photonics 6, 459-462 (2012).
23. S. J. LeBlanc, M. R. McClanahan, M. Jones, and P. J. Moyer, "Enhancement of multiphoton emission from single CdSe quantum dots coupled to gold films," Nano Lett. 13, 1662-1669 (2013).
24. Y. Chen, K. Munechika, and D. S. Ginger, "Dependence of fluorescence intensity on the spectral overlap between fluorophores and plasmon resonant single silver nanoparticles," Nano Lett. 7, 690-696 (2007).
25. A. I. Fernández-Domnguez, A. Wiener, F. Garcia-Vidal, S. A. Maier, and J. Pendry, "Transformation-optics description of nonlocal effects in plasmonic nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106802 (2012).
26. C. Cirací, Y. A. Urzhumov, and D. R. Smith, "Effects of classical nonlocality on the optical response of three-dimensional plasmonic nanodimers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 2731-2736 (2013).
27. G. Lévêque and O. J. F. Martin, "Optical interactions in a plasmonic particle coupled to a metallic film," Opt. Express 14, 9971-9981 (2006).
28. J. J. Mock, R. Hill, A. Degiron, S. Zauscher, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Distance-dependent plasmon resonant coupling between a gold nanoparticle and gold film," Nano Lett. 8, 2245-2252 (2008).
29. C. Cirací, R. Hill, J. J. Mock, Y. Urzhumov, A. I. Fernández-Domnguez, S. A. Maier, J. B. Pendry, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Probing the ultimate limits of plasmonic enhancement," Science 337, 1072-1074 (2012).
30. A. Moreau, C. Cirací, J. J. Mock, R. T. Hill, Q. Wang, B. Wiley, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Controlled-reflectance surfaces with film-coupled colloidal nanoantennas," Nature 492, 86-89 (2012).
31. J. Dionne, L. Sweatlock, H. Atwater, and A. Polman, "Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength- scale localization," Phys. Rev. B 73, 035407 (2006).
32. C. Cirac, J. B. Lassiter, A. Moreau, and D. R. Smith, "Quasianalytic study of scattering from optical plasmonic patch antennas," J. Appl. Phys. 114, 163108 (2013).
33. R. Esteban, T. V. Teperik, and J. J. Greffet, "Optical patch antennas for single photon emission using surface plasmon resonances," Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026802 (2010).
34. C. Belacel, B. Habert, F. Bigourdan, F. Marquier, J. P. Hugonin, S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, X. Lafosse, L. Coolen, C. Schwob, C. Javaux, B. Dubertret, J. J. Greffet, P. Senellart, and A. Maitre, "Controlling spontaneous emission with plasmonic optical patch antennas," Nano Lett. 13, 1516-1521 (2013).
35. C. Argyropoulos, C. Cirac, and D. R. Smith, "Enhanced optical bistability with film-coupled plasmonic nanocubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 063108 (2014).
36. Comsol Multiphysics, http://www.comsol.com/.
37. C. Cirac, Y. A. Urzhumov, and D. R. Smith, "Far-field analysis of axially symmetric three-dimensional directional cloaks," Opt. Express 21, 9397-9406 (2013).
38. R. T. Hill, J. J. Mock, Y. A. Urzhumov, D. S. Sebba, S. J. Oldenburg, S.-Y. Chen, A. A. Lazarides, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Leveraging nanoscale plasmonic modes to achieve reproducible enhancement of light," Nano Lett. 10, 4150-4154 (2010).
39. P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, "Optical constants of the noble metals," Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370-4379 (1972).
40. A. Rose, T. B. Hoang, F. McGuire, J. J. Mock, C. Cirac, D. R. Smith, and M. H. Mikkelsen, "Control of radiative processes using tunable plasmonic nanopatch antennas," Nano Lett. 14, 4797-4802 (2014).
41. G. M. Akselrod, C. Argyropoulos, T. B. Hoang, C. Cirac, C. Fang, J. Huang, D. R. Smith, and M. H. Mikkelsen, "Probing the mechanisms of giant Purcell enhancement in directional and efficient plasmonic nanoantennas," Nat. Photonics (to be published).
42. H. Morawitz, "Self-coupling of a two-level system by a mirror," Phys. Rev. 187, 1792-1796 (1969).
43. H. Becker, S. Burns, and R. Friend, "Effect of metal films on the photoluminescence and electroluminescence of conjugated polymers," Phys. Rev. B 56, 1893-1905 (1997).
44. J. B. Lassiter, F. McGuire, J. J. Mock, C. Cirac, R. T. Hill, B. J. Wiley, A. Chilkoti, and D. R. Smith, "Plasmonic waveguide modes of film-coupled metallic nanocubes," Nano Lett. 13, 5866-5872 (2013).