Engineering Nanoparticles with Pure High-Order Multipole Scattering

authored by
Vladimir A. Zenin, Cesar E. Garcia-Ortiz, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Yuanqing Yang, Radu Malureanu, Sergey M. Novikov, Victor Coello, Boris N. Chichkov, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, N. Asger Mortensen
Abstract

The ability to control scattering directionality of nanoparticles is in high demand for many nanophotonic applications. One of the challenges is to design nanoparticles producing pure high-order multipole scattering (e.g., octopole, hexadecapole), whose contribution is usually negligible compared with strong low-order multipole scattering (i.e., dipole or quadrupole). Here we present an intuitive way to design such nanoparticles by introducing a void inside them. We show that both shell and ring nanostructures allow regimes with nearly pure high-order multipole scattering. Experimentally measured scattering diagrams from properly designed silicon rings at near-infrared wavelengths (∼800 nm) reproduce well scattering patterns of an electric octopole and magnetic hexadecapole. Our findings advance significantly inverse engineering of nanoparticles from given complex scattering characteristics, with possible applications in biosensing, optical metasurfaces, and quantum communications.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Quantum Optics
QuantumFrontiers
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
External Organisation(s)
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Technical University of Denmark
Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS)
University of Southern Denmark
Type
Article
Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume
7
Pages
1067-1075
No. of pages
9
ISSN
2330-4022
Publication date
28.02.2020
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biotechnology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic version(s)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.03489 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00078 (Access: Closed)