Sub-wavelength visualization of near-field scattering mode of plasmonic nano-cavity in the far-field

Abstract: Spatial visualization of mode distribution of light scattering from plasmonic nanostructures is of vital importance for understanding the scattering mechanism and applications based on these plasmonic nanostructures. A long unanswered question in how the spatial information of scattered light from a single plasmonic nanostructure can be recovered in the far-field, under the constraints of the diffraction limit of the detection or imaging optical system. In this paper, we reported a theoretical model on retrieving local spatial information of scattered light by plasmonic nanostructures in a far-field optical imaging system. In the far-field parametric sin δ images, singularity points corresponding to near-field hot spots of the edge mode and the gap mode were resolved for gold ring and split rings with subwavelength diameters and feature sizes. The experimental results were verified with Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation in the near-field and far-field, for the edge mode and the gap mode at 566 nm and 534 nm, respectively. In sin δ image of split-ring, two singularity points associated with near-field hot spots were visualized and resolved with the characteristic size of 90 and 100 nm, which is far below the diffraction limit. The reported results indicate the feasibility of characterizing the spatial distribution of scattering light in the far-field and with sub-wavelength resolution for single plasmonic nanostructures with sub-wavelength feature sizes.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Sub-wavelength visualization of near-field scattering mode of plasmonic nano-cavity in the far-field ; volume:12 ; number:2 ; year:2023 ; pages:297-305 ; extent:9
Nanophotonics ; 12, Heft 2 (2023), 297-305 (gesamt 9)

Creator
Jin, Xiao
Ye, Shengwei
Cheng, Weiqing
Hou, Jamie Jiangmin
Jin, Wanzhen
Sheng, Tianyao
Hou, Lianping
Marsh, John H.
Yu, Yefeng
Sun, Ming
Ni, Bin
Liu, Xuefeng
Xiong, Jichuan

DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2022-0679
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023020113300888055027
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Jin, Xiao
  • Ye, Shengwei
  • Cheng, Weiqing
  • Hou, Jamie Jiangmin
  • Jin, Wanzhen
  • Sheng, Tianyao
  • Hou, Lianping
  • Marsh, John H.
  • Yu, Yefeng
  • Sun, Ming
  • Ni, Bin
  • Liu, Xuefeng
  • Xiong, Jichuan

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