Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation

Abstract Being an enabling technology for applications such as ultrasensitive biosensing and surface enhanced spectroscopy, enormous research interests have been focused on further boosting the local field enhancement at Fano resonance. Here, we demonstrate a plasmonic Fano resonance resulting from...

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Autores principales: Wuyun Shang, Fajun Xiao, Weiren Zhu, Hongsen He, Malin Premaratne, Ting Mei, Jianlin Zhao
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:588ac3c8b94b4e8ea62950a4112147d72021-12-02T11:52:22ZFano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation10.1038/s41598-017-00785-62045-2322https://doaj.org/article/588ac3c8b94b4e8ea62950a4112147d72017-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00785-6https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Being an enabling technology for applications such as ultrasensitive biosensing and surface enhanced spectroscopy, enormous research interests have been focused on further boosting the local field enhancement at Fano resonance. Here, we demonstrate a plasmonic Fano resonance resulting from the interference between a narrow magnetic dipole mode and a broad electric dipole mode in a split-ring resonator (SRR) coupled to a nanoarc structure. Strikingly, when subjected to an azimuthally polarized beam (APB) excitation, the intensity enhancement becomes more than 60 times larger than that for a linearly polarized beam (LPB). We attribute this intensity enhancement to the improved conversion efficiency between the excitation and magnetic dipole mode along with improved near-field coupling. The APB excited Fano structure is further used as a nanoruler and beam misalignment sensor, due to the high sensitivity of intensity enhancement and scattering spectra to structure irregularities and excitation beam misalignment. Interestingly, we find that, regardless of the presence of structural translations, the proposed structure still maintains over 60 times better intensity enhancement under APB excitation compared to LPB excitation. Moreover, even if the APB excitation is somewhat misaligned, our Fano structure still manages to give a larger intensity enhancement than its counterpart excited by LPB.Wuyun ShangFajun XiaoWeiren ZhuHongsen HeMalin PremaratneTing MeiJianlin ZhaoNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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Wuyun Shang
Fajun Xiao
Weiren Zhu
Hongsen He
Malin Premaratne
Ting Mei
Jianlin Zhao
Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
description Abstract Being an enabling technology for applications such as ultrasensitive biosensing and surface enhanced spectroscopy, enormous research interests have been focused on further boosting the local field enhancement at Fano resonance. Here, we demonstrate a plasmonic Fano resonance resulting from the interference between a narrow magnetic dipole mode and a broad electric dipole mode in a split-ring resonator (SRR) coupled to a nanoarc structure. Strikingly, when subjected to an azimuthally polarized beam (APB) excitation, the intensity enhancement becomes more than 60 times larger than that for a linearly polarized beam (LPB). We attribute this intensity enhancement to the improved conversion efficiency between the excitation and magnetic dipole mode along with improved near-field coupling. The APB excited Fano structure is further used as a nanoruler and beam misalignment sensor, due to the high sensitivity of intensity enhancement and scattering spectra to structure irregularities and excitation beam misalignment. Interestingly, we find that, regardless of the presence of structural translations, the proposed structure still maintains over 60 times better intensity enhancement under APB excitation compared to LPB excitation. Moreover, even if the APB excitation is somewhat misaligned, our Fano structure still manages to give a larger intensity enhancement than its counterpart excited by LPB.
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author Wuyun Shang
Fajun Xiao
Weiren Zhu
Hongsen He
Malin Premaratne
Ting Mei
Jianlin Zhao
author_facet Wuyun Shang
Fajun Xiao
Weiren Zhu
Hongsen He
Malin Premaratne
Ting Mei
Jianlin Zhao
author_sort Wuyun Shang
title Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
title_short Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
title_full Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
title_fullStr Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
title_full_unstemmed Fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
title_sort fano resonance with high local field enhancement under azimuthally polarized excitation
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2017
url https://doaj.org/article/588ac3c8b94b4e8ea62950a4112147d7
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