Optical antenna of comb-shaped split ring architecture for increased field localization in NIR and MIR

Opt Express. 2013 Dec 2;21(24):29455-61. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.029455.

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate novel designs of optical antennas based on comb-shaped split ring architecture that display multi resonance field intensity enhancement spectrum. These nanoantennas achieve substantially increased field localization at longer wavelengths than that of a single or an array of dipoles with the same side length. With these optical antennas, localizing near infrared (NIR) and mid infrared (MIR) lights within a region of tens of nanometers at an intensity enhancement level of the order of thousands of magnitude can be accomplished.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Infrared Rays*
  • Nanotechnology / instrumentation*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / instrumentation*
  • Transducers*