Ultrafast and Highly Collimated Radially Polarized Photons at Room Temperature from a Colloidal Quantum Dot Coupled to a Hybrid Nanoantenna

Nazarov, Alexander; Bloom, Yuval; Lubotzky, Boaz; Abudayyeh, Hamza; Mildner, Annika; Baldessarini, Lorenzo; Shemla, Yuval; Bowes, Eric G.; Fleischer, Monika; Hollingsworth, Jennifer A.; Rapaport, Ronen

doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01516

Title: Ultrafast and Highly Collimated Radially Polarized Photons at Room Temperature from a Colloidal Quantum Dot Coupled to a Hybrid Nanoantenna

Journal Article · 01 October 2024 · ACS Photonics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01516 · OSTI ID:2481561

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Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel). Racah Inst. of Physics
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Trento University (Italy)
Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel). Racah Inst. of Physics; Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)

To harness the potential of radially polarized photons for classical and quantum communication applications, we demonstrate an on-chip, room-temperature device, which generates highly directional radially polarized photons at very high rates. The photons are emitted from a giant CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum dot (gQD) accurately positioned at the tip of a metal nanocone centered inside a hybrid metal-dielectric bullseye antenna. We show that due to the large and selective Purcell enhancement specifically for the out-of-plane optical dipole of the gQD, the emitted photons can have a very high degree of radial polarization (>93%), based on a quantitative metric. Our study emphasizes the importance of accurate gQD positioning for optimal radial polarization purity through extensive experiments and simulations, which contribute to the fundamental understanding of radial polarization in nanostructured devices and pave the way for implementation of such systems in practical applications using structured quantum light.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 2481561

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--24-30732

Journal Information:: ACS Photonics, Journal Name: ACS Photonics Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 11; ISSN 2330-4022

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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