Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder
Abstract
Here in this work, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time strong localization of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at visible regime in metallic nanogratings with short-range correlated disorder. By increasing the degree of disorder, the confinement of SPPs is significantly enhanced, and the effective SPP propagation length dramatically shrinks. Strong localization of SPPs eventually emerges at visible regime, which is verified by the exponentially decayed fields and the vanishing autocorrelation function of the SPPs. Physically, the short-range correlated disorder induces strong interference among multiple scattered SPPs and provides an adequate fluctuation to effective permittivity, which leads to the localization effect. Finally, our study demonstrates a unique opportunity for disorder engineering to manipulate light on nanoscale and may achieve various applications in random nanolasing, solar energy, and strong light-matter interactions.
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[1];
- Nanjing Univ. (China). National Lab. of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1461460
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nano Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Anderson localization; Random nanolasing; Short-range correlated disorder; Strong localization of surface plasmon polaritons
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Shi, Wen-Bo, Liu, Lian-Zi, Peng, Ruwen, Xu, Di-Hu, Zhang, Kun, Jing, Hao, Fan, Ren-Hao, Huang, Xian-Rong, Wang, Qian-Jin, and Wang, Mu. Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191.
Shi, Wen-Bo, Liu, Lian-Zi, Peng, Ruwen, Xu, Di-Hu, Zhang, Kun, Jing, Hao, Fan, Ren-Hao, Huang, Xian-Rong, Wang, Qian-Jin, & Wang, Mu. Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191
Shi, Wen-Bo, Liu, Lian-Zi, Peng, Ruwen, Xu, Di-Hu, Zhang, Kun, Jing, Hao, Fan, Ren-Hao, Huang, Xian-Rong, Wang, Qian-Jin, and Wang, Mu. Mon .
"Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461460.
@article{osti_1461460,
title = {Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder},
author = {Shi, Wen-Bo and Liu, Lian-Zi and Peng, Ruwen and Xu, Di-Hu and Zhang, Kun and Jing, Hao and Fan, Ren-Hao and Huang, Xian-Rong and Wang, Qian-Jin and Wang, Mu},
abstractNote = {Here in this work, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time strong localization of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at visible regime in metallic nanogratings with short-range correlated disorder. By increasing the degree of disorder, the confinement of SPPs is significantly enhanced, and the effective SPP propagation length dramatically shrinks. Strong localization of SPPs eventually emerges at visible regime, which is verified by the exponentially decayed fields and the vanishing autocorrelation function of the SPPs. Physically, the short-range correlated disorder induces strong interference among multiple scattered SPPs and provides an adequate fluctuation to effective permittivity, which leads to the localization effect. Finally, our study demonstrates a unique opportunity for disorder engineering to manipulate light on nanoscale and may achieve various applications in random nanolasing, solar energy, and strong light-matter interactions.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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Figure 1 : SEM images of (a) the periodic nanograting (Sample I) and (b) a disordered nanorgrating with disorder degree $ƞ$=40% (Sample II). Inset show the magnified details. Each scale bar is 1 μm. The slit width is always w = 50 nm and the grating period of (a) ismore »
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