Spontaneous emission in non-local materials

Pavel Ginzburg; Diane J Roth; Mazhar E Nasir; Paulina Segovia; Alexey V Krasavin; James Levitt; Liisa M Hirvonen; Brian Wells; Klaus Suhling; David Richards; Viktor A Podolskiy; Anatoly V Zayats

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.273

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Spontaneous emission in non-local materials

Original Articles

- Spontaneous emission in non-local materials
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
  2.Present address: School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
  3.Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
  4.Present address: Department of Physics, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA
- Author bio：
  
  P Ginzburg, Email: pginzburg@post.tau.ac.il
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.273
  CLC：
- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：19 December 2016，
  
  Received：10 June 2016，
  
  Revised：28 November 2016，
  
  Accepted：13 December 2016
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Ginzburg, P. et al. Spontaneous emission in non-local materials. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16273 (2017).
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Ginzburg, P. et al. Spontaneous emission in non-local materials. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16273 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.273.

摘要

Abstract

Light–matter interactions can be strongly modified by the surrounding environment. Here

we report on the first experimental observation of molecular spontaneous emission inside a highly non-local metamaterial based on a plasmonic nanorod assembly. We show that the emission process is dominated not only by the topology of its local effective medium dispersion

but also by the non-local response of the composite

so that metamaterials with different geometric parameters but the same local effective medium properties exhibit different Purcell factors. A record-high enhancement of a decay rate is observed

in agreement with the developed quantitative description of the Purcell effect in a non-local medium. An engineered material non-locality introduces an additional degree of freedom into quantum electrodynamics

enabling new applications in quantum information processing

photochemistry

imaging and sensing with macroscopic composites.

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Keywords

composite electromagnetic materialsnon-local optical propertiesplasmonic metamaterialsquantum electrodynamicsspontaneous emission

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