We analyze an inherent nonlinearity of surface plasmon polaritons at the interface of Fermi-Dirac metal plasma, stemming from the depletion of electron density in high-intensity regions. The derived optical nonlinear coefficients are comparable with the experimental values for metals. We calculate the dispersion relations for the nonlinear propagation of high-intensity surface plasmon polaritons, predicting a nonlinearity-induced cutoff and vanishing group velocity.
Plasmonic nano-antennas constitute a central research topic in current science and engineering with an enormous variety of potential applications. Here we review the recent progress in the niche of plasmonic nano-antennas operating in the near infrared part of the spectrum which is important for a variety of applications. Tuning of the resonance into the near infrared regime is emphasized in the perspectives of fabrication, measurement, modeling, and analytical treatments, concentrating on the vast recent achievements in these areas.
We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically a broad-band enhancement of the spontaneous two-photon emission from AlGaAs at room temperature by plasmonic nanoantenna arrays fabricated on the semiconductor surface. Plasmonic structures with inherently low quality factors but very small effective volumes are shown to be optimal. A 20-fold enhancement was achieved for the entire antenna array, corresponding to an enhancement of nearly 3 orders of magnitude for charge carriers emitting at the near field of a plasmonic antenna.KEYWORDS Semiconductors, two-photon emission, nanoparticles, plasmonic enhancement O ver the past decade, a growing interest has been focused on exploiting the tight confinement of the electromagnetic field achievable in the vicinity of a metal-dielectric boundary, commonly referred to as surface plasmon polariton (SPP), for enhancing the efficiency of spontaneous emission in semiconductors, 1-3 and it has been shown that such enhancement is highly significant for very inefficient emitters. 4 These endeavors follow the success of using SPPs for the enhancement of nonlinear phenomena, including the surface enhancement of Raman scattering by many orders of magnitude, 5 surface-enhanced second-harmonic generation, 6 and the recent demonstration of high-harmonic generation by coupling to bow-tie nanoantennas. 7 It was also shown that SPPs preserve many key quantum properties of the photons used to excite them, including entanglement, 8,9 and the quantization theory of surface plasmon fields was developed 10 and experimentally demonstrated, 11 allowing an array of new applications in quantum information processing. Two-photon emission (TPE) is a nonlinear process with unique quantum properties, important in different realms of science. TPE from a semiconductor results from electronhole recombination with the simultaneous emission of two photons. Semiconductor TPE was recently observed 12 and theoretically analyzed, 13 and current-induced two-photon transparency was demonstrated, 14 paving the way for the realization of room-temperature miniature devices, including semiconductor two-photon lasers 15 and photon pair sources. 16 However, TPE is an inherently weak second-order process, and therefore enhancing mechanisms could significantly widen the range of its applications. Since the emission spectrum of spontaneous TPE is very wide band due to the large energy uncertainty of the virtual state, regular dielectric optical cavities with a very high qualityfactor, Q, and thus very narrow bandwidth 17 may enhance emission at specific wavelengths; 18 however, they are unable to enhance the broad spectrum of TPE. Plasmonic cavities, on the other hand, enhancing the field by significantly reducing the mode volume at low Q, 19 are optimal.Here we report the first experimental observation of plasmon-enhanced spontaneous TPE from semiconductors, by coupling the emission to bow-tie nanoantenna arrays, having efficient radiative coupling of plasmons to far-field light. 20 The broad band TPE from AlGaA...
A method for designing plasmonic particles with desired resonance spectra is presented. The method is based on repetitive perturbations of an initial particle shape while calculating the eigenvalues of the various quasistatic resonances. The method is rigorously proved, assuring a solution exists for any required spectral resonance location. Resonances spanning the visible and the near-infrared regimes, as designed by our method, are verified using finite-difference time-domain simulations. A novel family of particles with collocated dipole-quadrupole resonances is designed, demonstrating the unique power of the method.Such on-demand engineering enables strict realization of nano-antennas and metamaterials for various applications requiring specific spectral functions.
Optical resonances spanning the Near and Short Infra-Red spectral regime were exhibited experimentally by arrays of plasmonic nano-particles with concave cross-section. The concavity of the particle was shown to be the key ingredient for enabling the broad band tunability of the resonance frequency, even for particles with dimensional aspect ratios of order unity. The atypical flexibility of setting the resonance wavelength is shown to stem from a unique interplay of local geometry with surface charge distributions.
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