Engineering Nanoparticles with Pure High-Order Multipole Scattering

authored by: Vladimir A. Zenin, Cesar E. Garcia-Ortiz, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Yuanqing Yang, Radu Malureanu, Sergey M. Novikov, Victor Coello, Boris N. Chichkov, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, N. Asger Mortensen
Abstract: The ability to control scattering directionality of nanoparticles is in high demand for many nanophotonic applications. One of the challenges is to design nanoparticles producing pure high-order multipole scattering (e.g., octopole, hexadecapole), whose contribution is usually negligible compared with strong low-order multipole scattering (i.e., dipole or quadrupole). Here we present an intuitive way to design such nanoparticles by introducing a void inside them. We show that both shell and ring nanostructures allow regimes with nearly pure high-order multipole scattering. Experimentally measured scattering diagrams from properly designed silicon rings at near-infrared wavelengths (∼800 nm) reproduce well scattering patterns of an electric octopole and magnetic hexadecapole. Our findings advance significantly inverse engineering of nanoparticles from given complex scattering characteristics, with possible applications in biosensing, optical metasurfaces, and quantum communications.
Organisation(s): Institute of Quantum Optics
QuantumFrontiers
External Organisation(s): Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Technical University of Denmark
Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS)
University of Southern Denmark
Type: Article
Journal: ACS PHOTONICS
Volume: 7
Pages: 1067-1075
No. of pages: 9
ISSN: 2330-4022
Publication date: 28.02.2020
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biotechnology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic version(s): http://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.03489 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00078 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

@article{bad6c09bef654f0d96723c90292be233,
title = "Engineering Nanoparticles with Pure High-Order Multipole Scattering",
abstract = "The ability to control scattering directionality of nanoparticles is in high demand for many nanophotonic applications. One of the challenges is to design nanoparticles producing pure high-order multipole scattering (e.g., octopole, hexadecapole), whose contribution is usually negligible compared with strong low-order multipole scattering (i.e., dipole or quadrupole). Here we present an intuitive way to design such nanoparticles by introducing a void inside them. We show that both shell and ring nanostructures allow regimes with nearly pure high-order multipole scattering. Experimentally measured scattering diagrams from properly designed silicon rings at near-infrared wavelengths (∼800 nm) reproduce well scattering patterns of an electric octopole and magnetic hexadecapole. Our findings advance significantly inverse engineering of nanoparticles from given complex scattering characteristics, with possible applications in biosensing, optical metasurfaces, and quantum communications.",
keywords = "all-dielectric nanoparticles, hexadecapole, multipole decomposition, octopole, scattering diagram",
author = "Zenin, {Vladimir A.} and Garcia-Ortiz, {Cesar E.} and Evlyukhin, {Andrey B.} and Yuanqing Yang and Radu Malureanu and Novikov, {Sergey M.} and Victor Coello and Chichkov, {Boris N.} and Bozhevolnyi, {Sergey I.} and Lavrinenko, {Andrei V.} and Mortensen, {N. Asger}",
note = "The authors acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council (the PLAQNAP project, Grant No. 341054) and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU2020 funding), from scholarship 299967. N.A.M. is a VILLUM Investigator supported by Villum Fonden (Grant No. 16498). C.E.G.-O and V.C. acknowledge the technical assistance of Fabiola Armenta with the experimental setup. V.C. and C.E.G.-O. acknowledge funding from CONACYT Basic Scientific Research Grants No. 250719 and No. 252621. RM and AVL acknowledge the financial support from Villum Fonden ”DarkSILD project” (Grant No. 11116) as well as the support of the National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization (DTU Nanolab) for fabrication of the structures. A.B.E. and B.N.C. acknowledge financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany{\textquoteright}s Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project No. 390833453), the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers (EXC 2123, Project No. 390837967), and DFG Project CH179/34-1. Numerical simulation was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 18-19-00684).",
year = "2020",
month = feb,
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doi = "10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00078",
language = "English",
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