Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities

SV Boriskina, TA Cooper, L Zeng, G Ni… - Advances in Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivaled concentration of optical energy
well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is …

Fano resonance in novel plasmonic nanostructures

M Rahmani, B Luk'yanchuk… - Laser & Photonics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a large number of experimental and theoretical works have revealed a variety of
plasmonic nanostructures with the capabilities of Fano resonance (FR) generation. Among …

Label-free detection of single protein using a nanoplasmonic-photonic hybrid microcavity

VR Dantham, S Holler, C Barbre, D Keng… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Recently we reported the detection and sizing of the smallest RNA virus MS2 with a mass of
6 ag from the resonance frequency shift of a whispering gallery mode-nanoshell hybrid …

Opto-thermophoretic assembly of colloidal matter

L Lin, J Zhang, X Peng, Z Wu, ACH Coughlan… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Colloidal matter exhibits unique collective behaviors beyond what occurs at single-
nanoparticle and atomic scales. Treating colloidal particles as building blocks, researchers …

Boosting the directivity of optical antennas with magnetic and electric dipolar resonant particles

B Rolly, B Stout, N Bonod - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Dielectric particles supporting both magnetic and electric Mie resonances are shown to be
able to either reflect or collect the light emitted by a single photon source. An analytical …

Recent progress on optoplasmonic whispering‐gallery‐mode microcavities

Y Chen, Y Yin, L Ma, OG Schmidt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Optoplasmonic whispering‐gallery‐mode (WGM) microcavities, consisting of plasmonic
nanostructures and optical microcavities, provide excellent platforms for exploring …

Antenna–cavity hybrids: matching polar opposites for Purcell enhancements at any linewidth

HM Doeleman, E Verhagen, AF Koenderink - ACS Photonics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Strong interaction between light and a single quantum emitter is essential to a great number
of applications, including single photon sources. Microcavities and plasmonic antennas …

Gold nanoparticles in photonic crystals applications: A review

I Venditti - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
This review concerns the recently emerged class of composite colloidal photonic crystals
(PCs), in which gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are included in the photonic structure. The use …

Nanoantenna–microcavity hybrids with highly cooperative plasmonic–photonic coupling

JN Liu, Q Huang, KK Liu, S Singamaneni… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanoantennas offer the ultimate spatial control over light by concentrating optical energy
well below the diffraction limit, whereas their quality factor (Q) is constrained by large …

Whispering gallery mode hybridization in photonic molecules

Y Li, F Abolmaali, KW Allen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This work takes inspiration from chemistry where the spectral characteristics of the
molecules are determined by hybridization of electronic states evolving from the individual …