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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
