Cooperative Energy Transfer Controls the Spontaneous Emission Rate Beyond Field Enhancement Limits
Abstract
Quantum emitters located in proximity to a metal nanostructure individually transfer their energy via near-field excitation of surface plasmons. The energy transfer process increases the spontaneous emission (SE) rate due to plasmon-enhanced local field. Here, we demonstrate a significant acceleration of the quantum emitter SE rate in a plasmonic nanocavity due to cooperative energy transfer (CET) from plasmon-correlated emitters. Using an integrated plasmonic nanocavity, we realize up to sixfold enhancement in the emission rate of emitters coupled to the same nanocavity on top of the plasmonic enhancement of the local density of states. The radiated power spectrum retains the plasmon resonance central frequency and line shape, with the peak amplitude proportional to the number of excited emitters indicating that the observed cooperative SE is distinct from superradiance. As a result, plasmon-assisted CET offers unprecedented control over the SE rate and allows us to dynamically control the spontaneous emission rate at room temperature which can enable SE rate based optical modulators.
- Authors:
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- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States); IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
- IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
- Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS (United States)
- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States); IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy); Univ. of Calabria, Rende (Italy)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1611019
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1515107
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008148; DMR-1610427; HRD-1547754; SC008148
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Physics; Luminescence; Nanoantennas; Near-field optics; Photonics; Plasmonics; Quantum optics
Citation Formats
ElKabbash, Mohamed, Miele, Ermanno, Fumani, Ahmad K., Wolf, Michael S., Bozzola, Angelo, Haber, Elisha, Shahbazyan, Tigran V., Berezovsky, Jesse, De Angelis, Francesco, and Strangi, Giuseppe. Cooperative Energy Transfer Controls the Spontaneous Emission Rate Beyond Field Enhancement Limits. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.203901.
ElKabbash, Mohamed, Miele, Ermanno, Fumani, Ahmad K., Wolf, Michael S., Bozzola, Angelo, Haber, Elisha, Shahbazyan, Tigran V., Berezovsky, Jesse, De Angelis, Francesco, & Strangi, Giuseppe. Cooperative Energy Transfer Controls the Spontaneous Emission Rate Beyond Field Enhancement Limits. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.203901
ElKabbash, Mohamed, Miele, Ermanno, Fumani, Ahmad K., Wolf, Michael S., Bozzola, Angelo, Haber, Elisha, Shahbazyan, Tigran V., Berezovsky, Jesse, De Angelis, Francesco, and Strangi, Giuseppe. Wed .
"Cooperative Energy Transfer Controls the Spontaneous Emission Rate Beyond Field Enhancement Limits". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.203901. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1611019.
@article{osti_1611019,
title = {Cooperative Energy Transfer Controls the Spontaneous Emission Rate Beyond Field Enhancement Limits},
author = {ElKabbash, Mohamed and Miele, Ermanno and Fumani, Ahmad K. and Wolf, Michael S. and Bozzola, Angelo and Haber, Elisha and Shahbazyan, Tigran V. and Berezovsky, Jesse and De Angelis, Francesco and Strangi, Giuseppe},
abstractNote = {Quantum emitters located in proximity to a metal nanostructure individually transfer their energy via near-field excitation of surface plasmons. The energy transfer process increases the spontaneous emission (SE) rate due to plasmon-enhanced local field. Here, we demonstrate a significant acceleration of the quantum emitter SE rate in a plasmonic nanocavity due to cooperative energy transfer (CET) from plasmon-correlated emitters. Using an integrated plasmonic nanocavity, we realize up to sixfold enhancement in the emission rate of emitters coupled to the same nanocavity on top of the plasmonic enhancement of the local density of states. The radiated power spectrum retains the plasmon resonance central frequency and line shape, with the peak amplitude proportional to the number of excited emitters indicating that the observed cooperative SE is distinct from superradiance. As a result, plasmon-assisted CET offers unprecedented control over the SE rate and allows us to dynamically control the spontaneous emission rate at room temperature which can enable SE rate based optical modulators.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.122.203901},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 20,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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