Active Plasmonics and Tuneable Plasmonic Metamaterials (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Zayats, Anatoly V.; Maier, Stefan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, edited by two of the most respected researchers in plasmonics, gives an overview of the current state in plasmonics and plasmonic-based metamaterials, with an emphasis on active functionalities and an eye to future developments. This book is multifunctional, useful for newcomers and scientists interested in applications of plasmonics and metamaterials as well as for established researchers in this multidisciplinary area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118634455
• Artikelnr.: 39042167

Autorenporträt

ANATOLY V. ZAYATS, PhD, is Professor of Experimental Physics and the Head of the Experimental Biophysics and Nanotechnology Group at King's College London. He also leads the UK EPSRC research program on active plasmonics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, and SPIE. STEFAN MAIER, PhD, is the Co-Director of the Centre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials at Imperial College London. He was the recipient of the 2010 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences and the 2010 Paterson Medal of the Institute of Physics. A Fellow of the OSA and Institute of Physics, Dr. Maier has published over 130 journal articles in the area of nanoplasmonics, and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xiii Contributors xvii 1 Spaser, Plasmonic Amplification, and Loss
Compensation 1 Mark I. Stockman 1.1 Introduction to Spasers and Spasing 1
1.2 Spaser Fundamentals 2 1.2.1 Brief Overview of the Latest Progress in
Spasers 5 1.3 Quantum Theory of Spaser 7 1.3.1 Surface Plasmon Eigenmodes
and Their Quantization 7 1.3.2 Quantum Density Matrix Equations (Optical
Bloch Equations) for Spaser 9 1.3.3 Equations for CW Regime 11 1.3.4 Spaser
operation in CW Mode 15 1.3.5 Spaser as Ultrafast Quantum Nanoamplifier 17
1.3.6 Monostable Spaser as a Nanoamplifier in Transient Regime 18 1.4
Compensation of Loss by Gain and Spasing 22 1.4.1 Introduction to Loss
Compensation by Gain 22 1.4.2 Permittivity of Nanoplasmonic Metamaterial 22
1.4.3 Plasmonic Eigenmodes and Effective Resonant Permittivity of
Metamaterials 24 1.4.4 Conditions of Loss Compensation by Gain and Spasing
25 1.4.5 Discussion of Spasing and Loss Compensation by Gain 27 1.4.6
Discussion of Published Research on Spasing and Loss Compensations 29 2
Nonlinear Effects in Plasmonic Systems 41 Pavel Ginzburg and Meir Orenstein
2.1 Introduction 41 2.2 Metallic Nonlinearities--Basic Effects and Models
43 2.2.1 Local Nonlinearity--Transients by Carrier Heating 43 2.2.2 Plasma
Nonlinearity--The Ponderomotive Force 45 2.2.3 Parametric Process in Metals
46 2.2.4 Metal Damage and Ablation 48 2.3 Nonlinear Propagation of Surface
Plasmon Polaritons 49 2.3.1 Nonlinear SPP Modes 50 2.3.2 Plasmon Solitons
50 2.3.3 Nonlinear Plasmonic Waveguide Couplers 54 2.4 Localized Surface
Plasmon Nonlinearity 55 2.4.1 Cavities and Nonlinear Interactions
Enhancement 56 2.4.2 Enhancement of Nonlinear Vacuum Effects 58 2.4.3 High
Harmonic Generation 60 2.4.4 Localized Field Enhancement Limitations 60 2.5
Summary 62 3 Plasmonic Nanorod Metamaterials as a Platform for Active
Nanophotonics 69 Gregory A. Wurtz, Wayne Dickson, Anatoly V. Zayats, Antony
Murphy, and Robert J. Pollard 3.1 Introduction 69 3.2 Nanorod Metamaterial
Geometry 71 3.3 Optical Properties 72 3.3.1 Microscopic Description of the
Metamaterial Electromagnetic Modes 72 3.3.2 Effective Medium Theory of the
Nanorod Metamaterial 76 3.3.3 Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials and Spatial
Dispersion Effects 79 3.3.4 Guided Modes in the Anisotropic Metamaterial
Slab 82 3.4 Nonlinear Effects in Nanorod Metamaterials 82 3.4.1 Nanorod
Metamaterial Hybridized with Nonlinear Dielectric 84 3.4.2 Intrinsic Metal
Nonlinearity of Nanorod Metamaterials 85 3.5 Molecular Plasmonics in
Metamaterials 89 3.6 Electro-Optical Effects in Plasmonic Nanorod
Metamaterial Hybridized with Liquid Crystals 97 3.7 Conclusion 98 4
Transformation Optics for Plasmonics 105 Alexandre Aubry and John B. Pendry
4.1 Introduction 105 4.2 The Conformal Transformation Approach 108 4.2.1 A
Set of Canonic Plasmonic Structures 109 4.2.2 Perfect Singular Structures
110 4.2.3 Singular Plasmonic Structures 114 4.2.3.1 Conformal Mapping of
Singular Structures 114 4.2.3.2 Conformal Mapping of Blunt-Ended Singular
Structures 118 4.2.4 Resonant Plasmonic Structures 119 4.3 Broadband Light
Harvesting and Nanofocusing 121 4.3.1 Broadband Light Absorption 121 4.3.2
Balance between Energy Accumulation and Dissipation 123 4.3.3 Extension to
3D 125 4.3.4 Conclusion 126 4.4 Surface Plasmons and Singularities 127
4.4.1 Control of the Bandwidth with the Vertex Angle 127 4.4.2 Effect of
the Bluntness 129 4.5 Plasmonic Hybridization Revisited with Transformation
Optics 130 4.5.1 A Resonant Behavior 131 4.5.2 Nanofocusing Properties 132
4.6 Beyond the Quasi-Static Approximation 133 4.6.1 Conformal
Transformation Picture 134 4.6.2 Radiative Losses 135 4.6.3 Fluorescence
Enhancement 137 4.6.3.1 Fluorescence Enhancement in the Near-Field of
Nanoantenna 138 4.6.3.2 The CT Approach 139 4.7 Nonlocal effects 142 4.7.1
Conformal Mapping of Nonlocality 142 4.7.2 Toward the Physics of Local
Dimers 143 4.8 Summary and Outlook 145 5 Loss Compensation and
Amplification of Surface Plasmon Polaritons 153 Pierre Berini 5.1
Introduction 153 5.2 Surface Plasmon Waveguides 154 5.2.1 Unidimensional
Structures 154 5.2.2 Bidimensional Structures 156 5.2.3
Confinement-Attenuation Trade-Off 156 5.2.4 Optical Processes Involving
SPPs 157 5.3 Single Interface 157 5.3.1 Theoretical 157 5.3.2 Experimental
158 5.4 Symmetric Metal Films 160 5.4.1 Gratings 160 5.4.2 Theoretical 160
5.4.3 Experimental 161 5.5 Metal Clads 163 5.5.1 Theoretical 164 5.5.2
Experimental 164 5.6 Other Structures 164 5.6.1 Dielectric-Loaded SPP
Waveguides 164 5.6.2 Hybrid SPP Waveguide 165 5.6.3 Nanostructures 166 5.7
Conclusions 166 6 Controlling Light Propagation with Interfacial Phase
Discontinuities 171 Nanfang Yu, Mikhail A. Kats, Patrice Genevet, Francesco
Aieta, Romain Blanchard, Guillaume Aoust, Zeno Gaburro, and Federico
Capasso 6.1 Phase Response of Optical Antennas 172 6.1.1 Introduction 172
6.1.2 Single Oscillator Model for Linear Optical Antennas 174 6.1.3
Two-Oscillator Model for 2D Structures Supporting Two Orthogonal Plasmonic
Modes 176 6.1.4 Analytical Models for V-Shaped Optical Antennas 179 6.1.5
Optical Properties of V-Shaped Antennas: Experiments and Simulations 183
6.2 Applications of Phased Optical Antenna Arrays 186 6.2.1 Generalized
Laws of Reflection and Refraction: Meta-Interfaces with Phase
Discontinuities 186 6.2.2 Out-of-Plane Reflection and Refraction of Light
by Meta-Interfaces 192 6.2.3 Giant and Tuneable Optical Birefringence 197
6.2.4 Vortex Beams Created by Meta-Interfaces 200 7 Integrated Plasmonic
Detectors 219 Pieter Neutens and Paul Van Dorpe 7.1 Introduction 219 7.2
Electrical Detection of Surface Plasmons 221 7.2.1 Plasmon Detection with
Tunnel Junctions 221 7.2.2 Plasmon-Enhanced Solar Cells 222 7.2.3
Plasmon-Enhanced Photodetectors 225 7.2.4 Waveguide-Integrated Surface
Plasmon Polariton Detectors 232 7.3 Outlook 236 8 Terahertz Plasmonic
Surfaces for Sensing 243 Stephen M. Hanham and Stefan A. Maier 8.1 The
Terahertz Region for Sensing 244 8.2 THz Plasmonics 244 8.3 SPPs on
Semiconductor Surfaces 245 8.3.1 Active Control of Semiconductor Plasmonics
247 8.4 SSPP on Structured Metal Surfaces 247 8.5 THz Plasmonic Antennas
249 8.6 Extraordinary Transmission 253 8.7 THz Plasmons on Graphene 255 9
Subwavelength Imaging by Extremely Anisotropic Media 261 Pavel A. Belov 9.1
Introduction to Canalization Regime of Subwavelength Imaging 261 9.2 Wire
Medium Lens at the Microwave Frequencies 264 9.3 Magnifying and
Demagnifying Lenses with Super-Resolution 269 9.4 Imaging at the Terahertz
and Infrared Frequencies 272 9.5 Nanolenses Formed by Nanorod Arrays for
the Visible Frequency Range 276 9.6 Superlenses and Hyperlenses Formed by
Multilayered Metal-Dielectric Nanostructures 279 10 Active and Tuneable
Metallic Nanoslit Lenses 289 Satoshi Ishii, Xingjie Ni, Vladimir P.
Drachev, Mark D. Thoreson, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
10.1 Introduction 289 10.2 Polarization-Selective Gold Nanoslit Lenses 290
10.2.1 Design Concept of Gold Nanoslit Lenses 291 10.2.2 Experimental
Demonstration of Gold Nanoslit Lenses 292 10.3 Metallic Nanoslit Lenses
with Focal-Intensity Tuneability and Focal Length Shifting 295 10.3.1
Liquid Crystal-Controlled Nanoslit Lenses 295 10.3.2 Nonlinear Materials
for Controlling Nanoslit Lenses 300 10.4 Lamellar Structures with
Hyperbolic Dispersion Enable Subwavelength Focusing with Metallic Nanoslits
301 10.4.1 Active Lamellar Structures with Hyperbolic Dispersion 302 10.4.2
Subwavelength Focusing with Active Lamellar Structures 307 10.4.3
Experimental Demonstration of Subwavelength Diffraction 308 10.5 Summary
313 Acknowledgments 313 References 313