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We demonstrate that the emission of light by fluorescent molecules in the proximity of periodic arrays of nanoantennas or plasmonic crystals can be strongly modified when the arrays are covered by a dielectric film. The coupling between…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-14 G. Vecchi , V. Giannini , J. Gómez Rivas

We study the optical properties of quantum dipole emitters coupled to hyperbolic metamaterial nano-resonators using a semi-analytical quasinormal mode approach. We show that coupling to metamaterial nano-resonators can lead to significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Simon Axelrod , Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli , Herman M. K. Wong , Amr S. Helmy , Stephen Hughes

Solid-state quantum emitters are essential sources of single photons, and enhancing their emission rates is of paramount importance for applications in quantum communications, computing, and metrology. One approach is to couple quantum…

Coherent broadband excitation of plasmons brings ultrafast photonics to the nanoscale. However, to fully leverage this potential for ultrafast nanophotonic applications, the capacity to engineer and control the ultrafast response of a…

The spectral relationships between surface enhanced resonant Raman scattering (SERRS) and plasmon resonance observed in far field scattering cross are investigated using single silver nanoparticle dimers with focusing on the lowest energy…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-07 Tamitake Itoh , Yuko S. Yamamoto

Single-emitter plasmonic patch antennas are room-temperature deterministic single photon sources, which exhibit highly accelerated and directed single photon emission. However, for efficient operation these structures require…

Monolayer semiconductor transferred on nanopillar arrays provides site-controlled, on-chip single photon emission, which is a scalable light source platform for quantum technologies. However, the brightness of these emitters reported to…

Quantum state engineering, the cornerstone of quantum photonic technologies, mainly relies on spontaneous parametric down-conversion and four-wave mixing, where one or two pump photons decay into a photon pair. Both these nonlinear effects…

Coupling of an atom-like emitter to surface plasmons provides a path toward significant optical nonlinearity, which is essential in quantum information processing and quantum networks. A large coupling strength requires nanometer-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Tao Cai , Subhojit Dutta , Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi , Zhili Yang , Sanghee Nah , John T. Fourkas , Edo Waks

The enhancement of the photoluminescence of quantum dots induced by an optical nanoantenna has been studied considerably, but there is still significant interest in optimizing and miniaturizing such structures, especially when accompanied…

The optical properties of periodic arrays of plasmonic nanoantennas are strongly affected by coherent multiple scattering in the plane of the array, which leads to sharp spectral resonances in both transmission and reflection when the…

We analytically study the spontaneous emission of a single optical dipole emitter in the vicinity of a plasmonic nanoshell, based on the Lorenz-Mie theory. We show that the fluorescence enhancement due to the coupling between optical…

Quantum electrodynamics theory of the resonance Raman scattering is developed for an atom in a close proximity to a carbon nanotube. The theory predicts a dramatic enhancement of the Raman intensity in the strong atomic coupling regime to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 I. V. Bondarev

Key requirements for quantum plasmonic nanocircuits are reliable single-photon sources, high coupling efficiency to the plasmonic structures and low propagation losses. Self-assembled epitaxially grown GaAs quantum dots are close to ideal…

Decoherence is mostly detrimental in quantum information and quantum optics applications. However, the interplay between environment-induced incoherent dynamics and unitary evolution can give rise to novel quantum many-body phenomena that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Eric Sánchez-Llorente , Helmut Ritsch , Maria Moreno-Cardoner

Single-photon emitters are an essential component of quantum networks, and defects or impurities in semiconductors are a promising platform to realize such quantum emitters. Here we present a model that encapsulates the essential physics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Mark E. Turiansky , Kamyar Parto , Galan Moody , Chris G. Van de Walle

Surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures offer great opportunities to guide and manipulate light on the nanoscale. In the design of novel plasmonic devices, a central topic is to clarify the intricate relationship between the…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sanghyeon Yu , Habib Ammari

Optical-field emission from nanostructured solids such as subwavelength nanoantennas can be leveraged to create sub-femtosecond, PHz-scale electronics for optical-field detection. One application that is of particular interest is the…

Room-temperature strong coupling of a single quantum emitter and a single resonant plasmonic mode is a key resource for quantum information processing and quantum sensing at ambient conditions. To beat dephasing, ultrafast energy transfer…

We report the fabrication and characterization of a plasmonic metasurface comprising electrically contacted sub-wavelength gold dipole nanoantennas, conformally coated by a thin hafnia film, an indium tin oxide layer and a backside mirror,…