Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air

Mario Hentschel; Kirill Koshelev; Florian Sterl; Steffen Both; Julian Karst; Lida Shamsafar; Thomas Weiss; Yuri Kivshar; Harald Giessen

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-01015-z

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Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air

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- Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 2, Pages: 156-167(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.4th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
  2.Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
  3.Institute of Physics, University of Graz, and NAWI Graz, Universitätsplatz 5, 8010, Graz, Austria
- Author bio：
  
  Mario Hentschel (m.hentschel@physik.uni-stuttgart.de)
  Yuri Kivshar (yuri.kivshar@anu.edu.au)
  Harald Giessen (giessen@physik.unistuttgart.de)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-01015-z
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- Published：28 February 2023，
  
  Published Online：1 January 2023，
  
  Received：20 September 2022，
  
  Revised：27 September 2022，
  
  Accepted：11 October 2022
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Hentschel, M. et al. Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 156-167 (2023).
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Hentschel, M. et al. Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 156-167 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-01015-z.

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Abstract

Manipulating light on the nanoscale has become a central challenge in metadevices

resonant surfaces

nanoscale optical sensors

and many more

and it is largely based on resonant light confinement in dispersive and lossy metals and dielectrics. Here

we experimentally implement a novel strategy for dielectric nanophotonics: Resonant subwavelength localized confinement of light in air. We demonstrate that voids created in high-index dielectric host materials support localized resonant modes with exceptional optical properties. Due to the confinement in air

the modes do not suffer from the loss and dispersion of the dielectric host medium. We experimentally realize these resonant Mie voids by focused ion beam milling into bulk silicon wafers and experimentally demonstrate resonant light confinement down to the UV spectral range at 265 nm (4.68 eV). Furthermore

we utilize the bright

intense

and naturalistic colours for nanoscale colour printing. Mie voids will thus push the operation of functional high-index metasurfaces into the blue and UV spectral range. The combination of resonant dielectric Mie voids with dielectric nanoparticles will more than double the parameter space for the future design of metasurfaces and other micro- and nanoscale optical elements. In particular

this extension will enable novel antenna and structure designs which benefit from the full access to the modal field inside the void as well as the nearly free choice of the high-index material for novel sensing and active manipulation strategies.

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