• DocumentCode
    732670
  • Title

    Super-coulombic energy transfer: Engineering dipole-dipole interactions with metamaterials

  • Author

    Newman, Ward ; Cortes, Cristian ; Purschke, David ; Afshar, Amir ; Chen, Zhijiang ; De los Reyes, Glenda ; Hegmann, Frank ; Cadien, Ken ; Fedosejevs, Robert ; Jacob, Zubin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally that hyperbolic metamaterials fundamentally alter dipole-dipole interactions conventionally limited to the near-field. The effect is captured in long-range energy transfer and lifetime reduction of donor emitters due to acceptors placed 100 nm away.
  • Keywords
    optical metamaterials; dipole-dipole interactions; donor emitter lifetime reduction; hyperbolic metamaterials; superCoulombic energy transfer; Couplings; Energy exchange; Films; Fluorescence; Hidden Markov models; Metamaterials; Spontaneous emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183106