Branch cuts and resonances for metamaterials and plasmonics. On the origin of chirality in nanoplasmonic gyroid. The fabrication of 3d plasmonic substrates with the aim to extend the sers hot spots into the third dimension along the zaxis is a way to open new applications of plasmonic structures. Plasmonic metamaterial with coupling induced transparency arxiv. Using a maxwellbloch approach incorporating langevin noise we study the lasing dynamics in an active nano. Litchinitser, in fundamentals and applications of nanophotonics, 2016.
Negative index metamaterial an overview sciencedirect topics. Negative index metamaterial an overview sciencedirect. Ortwin hess born 1966 is a germanborn theoretical physicist at imperial college london uk, working in condensed matter optics. Light polarization rotators and nonreciprocal optical isolators are essential building blocks in photonics technology.
The marriage of nanoplasmonic meta materials with quantum gain media represents an exciting frontier in nanophotonics and nanoscience, and is a precursor of active, intergrated quantum nanooptics. The picture book of quantum electromagnetic behaviour of. Pdf photonic metamaterials allow for a range of exciting applications unattainable with ordinary dielectrics. These macroscopic passive devices are commonly based on magnetooptical faraday and kerr polarization rotation. The spps are very important in nanoplasmonics and nanodevices, due to their subwavelength nature, that is, because their spatial scale is smaller than that of. Magnetoplasmonic design rules for active magnetooptics. Loss compensation symmetry in dimers made of gain and. He is a fellow of the institute of physics, the optical society of america, and spie. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. Nanoplasmonic sensing for nanomaterials science, catalysis and optical gas detection. Beyond the regime of amplification, when gain exceeds both dissipative losses and radiative outcoupling, lasing instabilities occur.
Chiral and multifunctional metamaterials invited paper, thierry verbiest, ward brullot, ventsislav valev, katholieke univ. Although the fabrication of metallic elements has already been widely demonstrated, the development of 3d plasmonic materials is progressing slowly. Control and dynamic competition of bright and dark lasing states in. The synthesis of controlled shape nanoplasmonic silversilica. Chiral and multifunctional meta materials invited paper, thierry verbiest, ward brullot, ventsislav valev, katholieke univ. The physical mechanisms underlying the chiral optical behavior of the nanoplasmonic single gyroid are identified and it is shown that the optical chirality in this metallic structure is primarily determined by structural chirality and the. Bridging condensed matter theory and quantum optics he specialises in nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and semiconductor laser dynamics. The synthesis of controlled shape nanoplasmonic silver.
Emergent phenomena in optical and electromagetic wave interaction with metastructures. Nov 11, 20 a researcher at the university of texas at austin has devised an invisibility cloak that could work over a broad range of frequencies, including visible light and microwaves. Fainman, comparison of substratedependent sers chemicalenhancement effects in au and ag for compositional analysis of singlestranded dna, in conference on lasers and electrooptics, osa technical digest optical society of america, 2019, paper am4i. The synthesis of controlled shape nanoplasmonic silversilica structures by combining solgel technique and direct silver reduction. Extraordinary electronic or optical properties can result when layered solids are realized as twodimensional 2d materials single or fewlayer sheets, as is the case when graphene is formed from graphite. Loss compensation symmetry in dimers made of gain and lossy. This book is a compendium of the finest research in nanoplasmonic sensing done around the world in the last decade. Nanoplasmonics and threedimensional plasmonic metamaterials. It describes basic theoretical considerations of nanoplasmons in the dielectric environment, gives examples of the multitude of applications of nanoplasmonics in biomedical and chemical sensing, and provides an overview of future trends in optical and nonoptical nanoplasmonic.
We will give an overview of our recent work on the design of multifunctional meta materials and chiral meta materials. Nanoplasmonics concerns to the investigation of electron oscillations in metallic nanostructures and nanoparticles. Surface plasmons have optical properties, which are very interesting. Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials article pdf available in nature materials 117. We report that lasing of the bright negativeindex mode is possible if the higherq dark mode is discriminated.
Gain and plasmon dynamics in active negativeindex metamaterials. Pdf the rise of plasmonic metamaterials in recent years has unveiled the possibility of. In the first part, consisting of sections 2 nanoplasmonic metamaterials, 3 optical gain media in nanoplasmonics, fundamental physical concepts that underlie nanoplasmonic metamaterials and optical gain are discussed. Recent progress in the field of nanoplasmonics edited by stefan a maier imperial college. On introducing and expounding the underlying theoretical concepts of the complex interaction between plasmons and gain media, we examine the. With demands for improved microwave device performance and recent novel materials and devices, such as ferritebased negative index metamaterials nims he et al. He also leads the uk epsrc research program on active plasmonics. Recent progress in nanoplasmonicsbased integrated optical. In recent years, the research interests also migrated from standalone functional nanoplasmonic components to integrated optical systems. The synthesis and fabrication of plasmonic nanomaterials is covered in chapter 2 and the optical properties of these materials are described in chapter 3. Strong coupling in nanoplasmonic cavities and metamaterials conference presentation ortwin hess proc. The results demonstrate the intricate mechanisms that lead to steadystate ampli. Optical properties can also be enhanced by restructuring materials at subwavelength scales into metamaterials, such as enhancing the plasmonic properties of goldthe coupling of light.
This thesis focuses on nanoplasmonic sensing and is divided into seven chapters. Spoof surface plasmon metamaterials by paloma arroyo huidobro. Here we investigate how the mechanical deformation of compliant metamaterials can be used to create new types of tunable sensing surfaces. Bringing gain in the nanoscale will open a platform for practical, lossfree nanodevicesnot only electrooptic modulators and intense light. Topological weyl materials for active epsilonandmunearzero nanophotonics conference presentation ortwin hess. Also known as lefthanded or negative index materials, the proposed materials were theorized to exhibit optical properties opposite to those of glass, air, and the other righthandedor positive indexmaterials of our everyday world. Lately, several concepts have emerged for actively tuning the colors, which opens up for many new potential applications, the most obvious being novel color displays. Compliant metamaterials for resonantly enhanced infrared. The marriage of nanoplasmonic metamaterials with quantum gain media represents an exciting frontier in nanophotonics and nanoscience, and is a precursor of active, intergrated quantum nanooptics. Active and tunable metamaterials purdue engineering.
An undergraduate experiment demonstrating the physics of. For instance, surface plasmons have the unique capacity to confine light at the nanoscale. Most of the plasmonic substrates are 2d planar systems which limit the active area. Our present discussion of the physics of gainenhanced active nanoplasmonic metamaterials is divided into two main parts.
Pdf on aug 16, 2012, ortwin hess and others published gainenhanced. Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials support bright and dark modes that compete for gain. Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials nature materials. Engineering through mode shaping and lithographical nanofabrication of ultrasensitive nano plasmonic sensors for. The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for a long time. Hess, from losscompensation to amplification and lasing in active nanoplasm onic metamaterials, in frontiers in optics 2012laser science xxviii, osa technical digest online optical society of america, 2012, paper fth2a. It describes basic theoretical considerations of nanoplasmons in the dielectric environment, gives examples of the multitude of applications of nanoplasmonics in biomedical and chemical sensing, and provides an overview of future. Dec 22, 2015 the antenna can be thought of as a new resonator, composed of artificially engineered meta atoms, similar to a metamaterial. Stefan maier, phd, is the codirector of the centre for plasmonics and metamaterials at imperial college london. One of the important properties of such multilayered structures is that they support backward modes because of negative.
Functional nanoimprinted plasmonic crystals for chemical sensing and imaging. Metamaterials can be defined as artificially structured materials used to control and mold the flow of electromagnetic waves or possibly any other type of physical waves. Mar 21, 2017 photonic metasurfaces can be used to control the polarization, phase and amplitude of light. Optics ultraslow waves on the nanoscale on our website. Two twodimensional materials are better than one science. Trapped rainbow storage of light in metamaterials nature 450, 397 2007 by tsakmakidis, boardman and hess. Materials with plasmonic resonances at visible and ir wavelengths, as well as materials with enhanced photoluminescence and with anomalous refraction 3 will be presented. In order to achieve the ultimate goal of nanosized active optical circuit. Shalaev is recognized for his pioneering studies on linear and nonlinear optics of random nanophotonic composites that had helped to mold the research area of composite optical media. The antenna can be thought of as a new resonator, composed of artificially engineered metaatoms, similar to a metamaterial. Strong coupling in nanoplasmonic cavities and metamaterials conference presentation ortwin hess. Surface waves with the properties resembling the properties of spps can exist in many different multilayered structures which contain layers made of lefthanded metamaterials 8. Plasmonic metamaterials are incarnations of materials first proposed by a russian theorist in 1967.
On introducing and expounding the underlying theoretical concepts of the complex interaction between plasmons and gain media, we examine the experimental efforts in areas such as nanoplasmonic and metamaterial lasers. Nanophotonics, active devices, gain materials, lasers, loss compensation, symmetry. Materials that bend light, cloak and form superlenses nanoplasmonic structures energy band structure knowledge of the energy band structure and how to modify it is important because band structure determines the electrical, optical, electrooptical, and many of the properties of a thin film. Guzatov, engineering of radiation of optically active molecules with chiral nano meta particles, in singular and chiral nanoplasmonics, s. Osa from losscompensation to amplification and lasing. Active plasmonics and tuneable plasmonic metamaterials. A researcher at the university of texas at austin has devised an invisibility cloak that could work over a broad range of frequencies, including visible light and microwaves. Magnetoplasmonics, the combination of magnetism and plasmonics, is a promising route to bring these devices to the nanoscale.
Most of the existing and potential future applications of nanoplasmonics suffer from damping caused by metal absorption, however. We will give an overview of our recent work on the design of multifunctional metamaterials and chiral metamaterials. The first chapter provides an introduction to the world of plasmonics and nanoplasmonic sensing. Shalaev,2,4 and alexandra boltasseva1,2, 1dtu fotonik department of photonics engineering, technical university of denmark, oersteds plads 343, dk.
Metamaterials are artificial materials formed by embedding highly subwavelength. He also contributed to the emergence of a new field of engineered, artificial materials optical metamaterials. Functional nanoplasmonic devices and novel photonic materials by enes battal june, 2015 we certify that we have read this thesis and that in our opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and in quality, as a thesis for the degree of master of science. The random phase approximation in the long wavelength limit is used for analytical investigation of plasmons in three. Tsakmakidis, active nanoplasmonic metamaterials, nature mater. Hence, contrary to quasistatic predictions for nanoplasmonic metamaterials, a window of amplification opens. Photonic metasurfaces can be used to control the polarization, phase and amplitude of light. This development allowed for a very accurate control of optical energy with a nanometer resolution in space and with a femtosecond precision in time. This paper reports the development of a selforganized, 3d nanoplasmonic eutectic composite that exhibits localized surface plasmon resonance at 595 nm.
Nanoplasmonics is a young topic of research, which is part of nanophotonics and nanooptics. It will illuminate recent advances in the wider photonic metamaterials field, such as to mention a few active metamaterials and metasurfaces, selforganized nanoplasmonic metamaterials, graphene metamaterials, metamaterials with negative or vanishing refractive index and topological metamaterials facilitating ultraslow broadband waves on the. Nanoplasmonics fundamentals and applications intechopen. The immense potential of refractive index engineering in metamaterials can be further. Ultracompact modulators using alternative plasmonic materials viktoriia e. Spoof surface plasmon metamaterials on a wide range of geometries are discussed.
Technical paper a global leader in advanced materials. Metallic nanoparticles synthesis ideally, metallic nanoparticles should be prepared by a method which. Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials nature materials 11, 573 584 2012 by hess et al. These experiments are illustrative, tactile, and open ended so as to enable students to explore the physics of matterwave interaction. Now we turn to a specific design of nanoplasmonic molecules for the realization the. Such intensity spikes, which lakshmi pandey, thomas george, and i first studied in 1996 and called hot spots, 3 are now recognized as one of the most important and universal phenomena in nanoplasmonics. Control and dynamic competition of bright and dark lasing. By defining and analysing an effective rate balance, radiative outcoupling is found to be nonnegligible. There are various methods such as lithography 35, laser ablation 6,7, sputter coating 8 or. World scientific handbook of metamaterials and plasmonics. He was the recipient of the 2010 sackler prize in the physical sciences and the.