The simultaneous realization of high Q-factor resonances and strong near-field enhancements around and inside of dielectric nanostructures is important for many applications in nanophotonics. However, the incident fields are often confined within dielectric nanoparticles, which results in poor optical interactions with external environment. Near-field enhancements can be extended outside of dielectric nanostructures with proper design, but the Q-factor is often reduced caused by additional radiation losses. This paper shows that the obstacles to achieve high Q-factor, that is, the radiative losses can be effectively suppressed by using dielectric nanodisk arrays, where the Q-factor is about one order larger than that of the single disks associated with the nonradiating anapole modes and the collective oscillations of the arrays. When the resonance energies of the electric dipole mode and the subradiant mode are degenerate with each other, the destructive interference produces an effect analogous to electromagnetically induced transparency. Furthermore, the Q-factor can be extremely enlarged with dielectric split nanodisk arrays, where the present of the split gap does not induce additional losses. Instead, the coupling between the two interfering modes is modified by adjusting the gap width, which makes it possible to achieve high Q-factor and strong near-field enhancements around and inside of the split disks simultaneously. It is shown that the Q-factor is approaching to 10 when the gap width is about 110 nm, and the near-field enhancements around and inside of the split disks are about two orders stronger than that of the single disk.
The nonradiating nature of anapole modes owing to the compositions of electric and toroidal dipole moments makes them distinct from conversional radiative resonances, and they have been suggested for the design of nanophotonic devices such as nanolasers based on light−matter interactions tailor by nanodisks. Therefore, the investigation of resonance coupling between molecular excitons and anapole modes is not only of fundamental interest, but is also promising for practical applications. To this end, a heterostructure composed of a silicon nanodisk and a uniform molecular J-aggregate ring is used to achieve the resonance coupling between the exciton transition and the anapole mode. In contrast with that of the conversional resonances, the resonance coupling is evidenced by a scattering peak around the exciton transition frequency, and the anapole mode splits into a pair of eigenmodes characterized as pronounced scattering dips, which are termed as the formation of two hybrid anapole modes caused by the coherent energy exchange in the heterostructure, and it has been verified by the multipole decompositions and the near-field distributions. An anticrossing behavior with a mode splitting of 161 meV is observed on the energy diagram, indicating that the strong coupling regime is achieved. Furthermore, due to the unique near-field distribution associated with the anapole mode, there is a much larger upper limit value for the width of the J-aggregate ring to enhance the resonance coupling, and the molecules located around the apexes of the disk perpendicular to the incident polarization play the dominate role for the resonance coupling.
This report describes our submission to the fifth CHiME Challenge. The main technical points of our system include the deep learning based speech enhancement and separation, training data augmentation via different versions of the official training data, SNR-based array selection, front-end model fusion, acoustic model fusion, and language model fusion. Tested on the development test set, our best system for single-array track using official LM has yielded a 37.7% WER relative reduction over the results given by official baseline system.
Large metallic nanoparticles with sizes comparable to the wavelength of light are expected to support high-order plasmon modes exhibiting resonances in the visible to near infrared spectral range. However, the radiation behavior of high-order plasmon modes, including scattering spectra and radiation patterns, remains unexplored. Here, we report on the first observation and characterization of the high-order plasmon modes excited in large gold nanospheres by using the surface plasmon polaritons generated on the surface of a thin gold film. The polarization-dependent scattering spectra were measured by inserting a polarization analyzer in the collection channel and the physical origins of the scattering peaks observed in the scattering spectra were clearly identified. More interestingly, the radiation of electric quadrupoles and octupoles was resolved in both frequency and spatial domains. In addition, the angular dependences of the radiation intensity for all plasmon modes were extracted by fitting the polarization-dependent scattering spectra with multiple Lorentz line shapes. A significant enhancement of the electric field was found in the gap plasmon modes and it was employed to generate hot-electron intraband luminescence. Our findings pave the way for exploiting the high-order plasmon modes of large metallic nanoparticles in the manipulation of light radiation and light-matter interaction.
Bound states in the continuum (BIC) are considered as an effective means to dramatically elongate the trapping time of light. However, light-matter interaction depends not only on the life-time of an optical mode, but also on its mode volume. Therefore, increasing the lifetime of an optical mode and minimizing the mode volume simultaneously, utilizing the BIC resembles a promising way for enhancing light-matter interaction. Herein, we have proposed a novel hybrid plasmonic-dielectric structure to manipulate the mode volume of BIC. For the Friedrich-Wintgen BIC, the electric field is strongly confined in the dielectric nanoparticle, leading to the considerable field enhancement compared with the single dielectric nanoparticle case. In contrast, strong localization of electric field can be achieved along the surface normal direction for the symmetry-protected BIC, leading to one order of magnitude reduction of mode volume in one unit cell compared with the conventional symmetry-protected BIC of all-dielectric structure. The proposed hybrid photonic system could provide an ideal flat platform for advanced manipulation of light-matter interaction.
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