Nearfield control over magnetic light-matter interactions

Benoît Reynier; Eric Charron; Obren Markovic; Bruno Gallas; Alban Ferrier; Sébastien Bidault; Mathieu Mivelle

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-01807-z

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Nearfield control over magnetic light-matter interactions

Original Articles

- Nearfield control over magnetic light-matter interactions
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 7, Pages: 1833-1841(2025)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, 75005 Paris, France
  2.Chimie ParisTech, Paris Sciences & Lettres University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, 75005 Paris, France
  3.Faculté des Sciences et Ingénierie, Sorbonne Université, UFR 933, Paris 75005, France
  4.Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75005 Paris, France
- Author bio：
  
  Mathieu Mivelle (mathieu.mivelle@sorbonne-universite.fr)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-01807-z
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- Received：07 June 2024，
  
  Revised：21 February 2025，
  
  Accepted：04 March 2025，
  
  Published Online：19 March 2025，
  
  Published：31 July 2025
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Reynier, B. et al. Nearfield control over magnetic light-matter interactions. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1833-1841 (2025).
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Reynier, B. et al. Nearfield control over magnetic light-matter interactions. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1833-1841 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-01807-z.

摘要

Abstract

Light-matter interactions are frequently perceived as predominantly influenced by the electric field

with the magnetic component of light often overlooked. Nonetheless

the magnetic field plays a pivotal role in various optical processes

including chiral light-matter interactions

photon-avalanching

and forbidden photochemistry

underscoring the significance of manipulating magnetic processes in optical phenomena. Here

we explore the ability to control the magnetic light and matter interactions at the nanoscale. In particular

we demonstrate experimentally

using a plasmonic nanostructure

the transfer of energy from the magnetic nearfield to a nanoparticle

thanks to the subwavelength magnetic confinement allowed by our nano-antenna. This control is made possible by the particular design of our plasmonic nanostructure

which has been optimized to spatially decouple the electric and magnetic components of localized plasmonic fields. Furthermore

by studying the spontaneous emission from the Lanthanide-ions doped nanoparticle

we observe that the measured field distributions are not spatially correlated with the experimentally estimated electric and magnetic local densities of states of this antenna

in contradiction with what would be expected from reciprocity. We demonstrate that this counter-intuitive observation is

in fact

the result of the different optical paths followed by the excitation and emission of the ions

which forbids a direct application of the reciprocity theorem.

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