All-Optical Nanometric Switch based on the Directional Scattering of Semiconductor Nanoparticles
Abstract
A structure based on a dimer of silicon nanoparticles, presenting directional scattering in the visible range, was studied as a new design of an all-optical switch. The combination of spherical nanoparticles satisfying, at the same incident wavelength, the zero-backward and the minimum-forward scattering conditions, can produce either a maximum or a minimum of the scattered field in the area between the nanoparticles. The modulation of the incident wavelength can be used as switching parameter, due to the sensitivity of these conditions to it. An optimization of the dimer setup, both in the distance between the nanoparticles and the incident wavelength, was numerically performed to obtain a maximum contrast. Also, near-field and far-field distributions of the electric field have been considered.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1506.08084,
title = {All-Optical Nanometric Switch based on the Directional Scattering of Semiconductor Nanoparticles},
author = {Braulio Garcia-Camara and J. Francisco Algorri and Alexander Cuadrado and Virginia Urruchi and Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena and Rosalia Serna and Ricardo Vergaz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08084},
year = {2015}
}
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