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Tapered Yagi-Uda Nanoantennas for Broadband Unidirectional Emission

Optics 2013-02-21 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally the operation of tapered Yagi-Uda nanoantennas for broadband unidirectional emission enhancement. The measured transmittance spectra show that, in comparison to untapered reference structures, the tapered nanoantennas exhibit distinct wide-band spectral resonances. The performed full-vectorial numerical calculations are in good qualitative agreement with the measured spectra, further revealing how the near-field profiles of the tapered nanoantennas are directly reflecting their broadband characteristics.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6176,
  title  = {Tapered Yagi-Uda Nanoantennas for Broadband Unidirectional Emission},
  author = {Isabelle Staude and Ivan S. Maksymov and Manuel Decker and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko and Dragomir N. Neshev and Chennupati Jagadish and Yuri S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6176},
  year   = {2013}
}