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Surface plasmons in metallic nanostructures can confine the optical field within the region of subwavelength, even nanometer scale, and thus enhance the light-matter interaction and other physical processes, which will lead the plasmon optics to possess attractive applications in many areas. However, the " mode volume” often used to characterize field confinement in plasmonic structures is only defined phe-nomenologically and suffers ambiguity when applied to complex structures. In this work, we develop a theoretical method to characterize the field confinement based on quasi-normal mode analysis. We recognize the fact that a plasmonic resonance may result from many eigen-modes, which together contribute to the observed field confinement. An effective mode volume is introduced for quasi-normal modes and used to characterize the field confinement when the plasmonic resonance is dominated by a single quasi-normal mode. Two typical kinds of plasmonic structures are systematically examined, and the field confinement on the order of 10 nm3–100 nm3 is confirmed. In pursuit of the ultimate field confinement, we revisit the so-called " pico-cavity” formed by an atomistic protrusion in the nano gap of the particle-on-mirror configuration. The apparent hot spot is shown to have contributions from several quasi-normal modes. The dominant one exhibits a further squeezed mode volume compared with the scenario without the protrusion, but is still well above 10 nm3.
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Keywords:
- localization of optical fields /
- surface plasmon /
- quasinormal mode analysis /
- body of revolution
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[27] Sauvan C, Hugonin J P, Maksymov I S, Lalanne P 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 237401Google Scholar
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图 1 半径40 nm金球的准正则模式分析 (a)旋转对称结构建模示意; (b)按指标l, m排列的归一化准正则模场分布, 中心线左右两侧分别为Er和Eθ的实部; (c)准正则模式谱分布, 蓝色叉为模式聚点; (d)用全波仿真(full wave)、解析公式(analytical)和准正则模式重建(QNM)三种方法得到的距金纳米球表面10 nm处沿轴向的Purcell因子
Figure 1. 2D axisymmetric quasinormal mode (QNM) analysis for a spherical gold nanoparticle with rs = 40 nm: (a) Schematic of 2D axisymmetric modeling; (b) shows a table of normalized QNM profiles arranged according to indices l and m, where on the left and right side of the axis shows the real part of Er and Eθ, respectively; (c) spectral distribution of QNMs with an accumulation point indicated by the blue cross; (d) at a position 10 nm away from the metal surface, Purcell factor in radial direction is calculated with full wave simulation, analytical methods and QNM reconstruction.
图 2 二聚体结构准正则模式及场局域分析 二聚体由ra = 40 nm和rb = 5, 20, 40 nm的两个金纳米球组成, 间隙宽度d = 1, 5, 10 nm; 图中展示了: 准正则模式谱分布; 纳米间隙中心处轴向Purcell因子的准正则模式重建(黑色实线), 红色圆圈为全波仿真结果; 纳米间隙附近BDP模式的等效模体积分布
Figure 2. QNM modal analysis for dimers and the field localization of the BDP modes. The dimers consist of two spherical gold nanoparticles with ra = 40 nm and rb = 5, 20, 40 nm. The gap size d = 1, 5, 10 nm. In the figure are illustrated: the spectral distributions of the QNMs; the QNM reconstruction (black solid lines) of the Purcell factor at the gap center and in the axial direction, the full wave simulation results are indicated by red circles; the mode volume profiles of the BDP modes in the gap region.
图 3 PoM的准正则模式及场局域分析 PoM中金颗粒为半长轴a = 40 nm的旋转椭球, 镜面为相同材料无穷大半空间, 椭球半短轴b = 5, 20, 40 nm, 与镜面间距d = 1, 5, 10 nm; 图中展示了: 准正则模式谱分布; 纳米间隙中心处轴向Purcell因子的准正则模式重建(黑色实线), 红色圆圈为全波仿真结果; 纳米间隙附近BDP模式的等效模体积分布
Figure 3. QNM modal analysis for particle-on-mirror (PoM) structures and the field localization of the BDP modes. The gold particles are ellipsoids of revolution with semi-axes a = 40 nm and b = 5, 20, 40 nm. The gap formed with gold mirrors has d = 1, 5, 10 nm. In the figure are illustrated: the spectral distributions of the QNMs; the QNM reconstruction (black solid lines) of the Purcell factor at the gap center and in the axial direction, the full wave simulation results are indicated by red circles; the mode volume profiles of the BDP modes in the gap region.
图 4 PoM纳米间隙中原子凸起结构对光场局域的影响和准正则模式分析 (a) 存在与不存在原子凸起时的结构示意图; (b) 纳米间隙中心高度位置的局域场增强效应, 激励源为镜面上方716 nm处轴向偶极子; (c) BQP谐振波长处纳米间隙中心高度的局域场增强效应; (d) PoM结构的准正则模式谱分布以及纳米间隙中心处轴向Purcell因子的准正则模式重建; (e) BQP模式的归一化模场和等效模式体积
Figure 4. The effects of the atomistic protrusion on the field localization in the nano-gap of the particle-on-mirror (PoM) structure and the QNM modal analysis: (a) Schematic diagrams of the PoM structures with and without the atomistic protrusion; (b) the local field enhancement at the half height in the gap when excited by an axially polarized dipole 716 nm above the mirror; (c) the cross section of the local field enhancement in (b) at the resonance wavelength of the BQP mode; (d) the spectral distributions of the QNMs and the QNM reconstruction of the Purcell factor at the gap center and in the axial direction; (e) the normalized modal profile of the BQP mode and its mode volume map in the gap region.
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[1] Alvarez Puebla R, Liz Marzán L M, García de Abajo F J 2010 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1 2428Google Scholar
[2] Kuznetsov A I, Miroshnichenko A E, Brongersma M L, Kivshar Y S, Luk’yanchuk B 2016 Science 354 aag2472Google Scholar
[3] Schuller J A, Barnard E S, Cai W, Jun Y C, White J S, Brongersma M L 2010 Nat. Mater. 9 193Google Scholar
[4] Polman A 2008 Science 322 868Google Scholar
[5] Benz F, Schmidt M K, Dreismann A, Chikkaraddy R, Zhang Y, Demetriadou A, Carnegie C, Ohadi H, de Nijs B, Esteban R, Aizpurua J, Baumberg J J 2016 Science 354 726Google Scholar
[6] Kern J, Großmann S, Tarakina N V, Hackel T, Emmerling M, Kamp M, Huang J S, Biagioni P, Prangsma J C, Hecht B 2012 Nano Lett. 12 5504Google Scholar
[7] Ciracì C, Hill R, Mock J, Urzhumov Y, Fernández Domínguez A, Maier S, Pendry J, Chilkoti A, Smith D 2012 Science 337 1072Google Scholar
[8] Wei H, Xu H 2013 Nanoscale 5 10794Google Scholar
[9] Oulton R F, Sorger V J, Genov D, Pile D, Zhang X 2008 Nat. Photon. 2 496Google Scholar
[10] Kleinman S L, Frontiera R R, Henry A I, Dieringer J A, van Duyne R P 2013 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15 21Google Scholar
[11] Kneipp K, Wang Y, Kneipp H, Perelman L T, Itzkan I, Dasari R R, Feld M S 1997 Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 1667Google Scholar
[12] Stranahan S M, Willets K A 2010 Nano Lett. 10 3777Google Scholar
[13] Willets K A, Wilson A J, Sundaresan V, Joshi P B 2017 Chem. Rev. 117 7538Google Scholar
[14] Chen W, Zhang S, Deng Q, Xu H 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 801Google Scholar
[15] Loo C, Lowery A, Halas N, West J, Drezek R 2005 Nano Lett. 5 709Google Scholar
[16] Huang X, Jain P K, Sayed I H E, Sayed M A E 2007 Nanomedicine 2 681Google Scholar
[17] Juan M L, Righini M, Quidant R 2011 Nat. Photon. 5 349Google Scholar
[18] Maragò O M, Jones P H, Gucciardi P G, Volpe G, Ferrari A C 2013 Nat. Nanotechnol. 8 807Google Scholar
[19] Pelton M 2015 Nat. Photon. 9 427Google Scholar
[20] Tame M S, McEnery K R, Özdemir Ş K, Lee J, Maier S A, Kim M S 2013 Nat. Phys. 9 329Google Scholar
[21] Reiserer A, Rempe G 2015 Rev. Mod. Phys. 87 1379Google Scholar
[22] Wen J, Wang H, Chen H, Deng S, Xu N 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 096101Google Scholar
[23] Maier S A 2006 Opt. Express 14 1957Google Scholar
[24] Koenderink A F 2010 Opt. Lett. 35 4208Google Scholar
[25] Esteban R, Aizpurua J, Bryant G W 2014 New J. Phys. 16 013052Google Scholar
[26] Muljarov E, Langbein W 2016 Phys. Rev. B 94 235438Google Scholar
[27] Sauvan C, Hugonin J P, Maksymov I S, Lalanne P 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 237401Google Scholar
[28] Leung P, Liu S, Young K 1994 Phys. Rev. A 49 3057Google Scholar
[29] Lalanne P, Yan W, Vynck K, Sauvan C, Hugonin J P 2018 Laser Photon. Rev. 12 1700113Google Scholar
[30] Yan W, Faggiani R, Lalanne P 2018 Phys. Rev. B 97 205422Google Scholar
[31] Muljarov E, Weiss T 2018 Opt. Lett. 43 1978Google Scholar
[32] Franke S, Hughes S, Dezfouli M K, Kristensen P T, Busch K, Knorr A, Richter M 2018 arXiv: 1808.06392
[33] Hughes S, Richter M, Knorr A 2018 Opt. Lett. 43 1834Google Scholar
[34] Novotny L, Hecht B 2012 Principles of Nano-Optics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp350–359
[35] Dung H T, Knöll L, Welsch D G 1998 Phys. Rev. A 57 3931Google Scholar
[36] Lalanne P, Yan W, Gras A, Sauvan C, Hugonin J P, Besbes M, Demésy G, Truong M, Gralak B, Zolla F 2018 arXiv: 1811.11751
[37] Muljarov E, Langbein W 2016 Phys. Rev. B 93 075417Google Scholar
[38] Bai Q, Perrin M, Sauvan C, Hugonin J P, Lalanne P 2013 Opt. Express 21 27371Google Scholar
[39] Dezfouli M K, Hughes S 2018 Phys. Rev. B 97 115302Google Scholar
[40] Dezfouli M K, Tserkezis C, Mortensen N A, Hughes S 2017 Optica 4 1503Google Scholar
[41] Raman A, Fan S 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 087401Google Scholar
[42] Demésy G, Nicolet A, Gralak B, Geuzaine C, Campos C, Roman J E 2018 arXiv: 1802.02363
[43] Tisseur F, Meerbergen K 2001 SIAM Rev. 43 235Google Scholar
[44] Taflove A, Hagness S C 2005 Computational Electrodynamics: the Fnite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Norwood: Artech House) pp517–552
[45] Oxborrow M 2007 IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech. 55 1209Google Scholar
[46] Chinellato O, Arbenz P, Streiff M, Witzig A 2005 Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 21 1263Google Scholar
[47] Jin J 2014 The Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics (Hoboken: Wiley-IEEE Press) pp315–371
[48] Ho K, Leung P, van Den Brink A M, Young K 1998 Phys. Rev. E 58 2965Google Scholar
[49] Ge R C, Kristensen P T, Young J F, Hughes S 2014 New J. Phys. 16 113048Google Scholar
[50] Kristensen P T, Hughes S 2013 ACS Photon. 1 2
[51] Iranzo D A, Nanot S, Dias E J, Epstein I, Peng C, Efetov D K, Lundeberg M B, Parret R, Osmond J, Hong J Y 2018 Science 360 291Google Scholar
[52] Amendola V, Pilot R, Frasconi M, Marago O M, Iati M A 2017 J. Phys. Condens. Matter 29 203002Google Scholar
[53] Baranov D G, Wersall M, Cuadra J, Antosiewicz T J, Shegai T 2017 ACS Photon. 5 24
[54] Prodan E, Radloff C, Halas N J, Nordlander P 2003 Science 302 419Google Scholar
[55] Urbieta M, Barbry M, Zhang Y, Koval P, Sánchez Portal D, Zabala N, Aizpurua J 2018 ACS Nano 12 585Google Scholar
[56] Ciracì C 2017 Phys. Rev. B 95 245434Google Scholar
[57] Savage K J, Hawkeye M M, Esteban R, Borisov A G, Aizpurua J, Baumberg J J 2012 Nature 491 574Google Scholar
[58] Esteban R, Borisov A G, Nordlander P, Aizpurua J 2012 Nat. Commun. 3 825Google Scholar
[59] Chikkaraddy R, de Nijs B, Benz F, Barrow S J, Scherman O A, Rosta E, Demetriadou A, Fox P, Hess O, Baumberg J J 2016 Nature 535 127Google Scholar
[60] Barbry M, Koval P, Marchesin F, Esteban R, Borisov A G, Aizpurua J, Sánchez Portal D 2015 Nano Lett. 15 3410Google Scholar
[61] Trautmann S, Aizpurua J, Götz I, Undisz A, Dellith J, Schneidewind H, Rettenmayr M, Deckert V 2017 Nanoscale 9 391Google Scholar
[62] Weaver J, Frederikse H 1977 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (Boca Raton: CRC Press) pp12–156
[63] Bohren C F, Huffman D R 2008 Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons) pp82–129
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