Impedance of a nanoantenna

Author

Marquier, François ; Greffet, Jean-Jacques

Author_Institution

Lab. Charles Fabry, Univ. Paris-Sud, Palaiseau, France

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Antennas are widely used by electrical engineers to enhance the coupling between propagating waves and electric sources or detectors. It is thus tempting to develop an optical analog to tailor visible light emission or absorption by an atom or a molecule. This idea has been put forward recently and it has been demonstrated that both the radiative rate and the emission pattern of optical emitters can be modified by metallic nanostructures. The application of the concepts of antennas to nanooptics has been extensively discussed by Engheta´s group who has introduced many novel ideas in the field in recent contributions.

Keywords

light propagation; nanophotonics; Engheta´s group; detectors; electric sources; electrical engineers; metallic nanostructures; nanoantenna impedance; nanooptics; optical analog; optical emitters; propagating waves; visible light emission; Antennas; Atom optics; Couplings; Impedance; Optical polarization; RLC circuits; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943592

Filename

5943592