Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna

Simona Checcucci; Pietro Lombardi; Sahrish Rizvi; Fabrizio Sgrignuoli; Nico Gruhler; Frederik BC Dieleman; Francesco S Cataliotti; Wolfram HP Pernice; Mario Agio; Costanza Toninelli

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.245

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- Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna
- Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna
- LSA 2017年6卷第2期
- Affiliations：
  
  1.European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  2.National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  3.Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  4.Center for Quantum Science and Technology in Arcetri (QSTAR), 50125 Florence, Italy
  5.Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
  6.Institute of Physics, University of Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany
  7.The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  8.Laboratory of Nano-Optics, University of Siegen, 57072 Siegen, Germany
- Author bio：
  
  M Agio, Email: mario.agio@uni-siegen.de
  C Toninelli, Email: toninelli@lens.unifi.it
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.245
  中图分类号：
- 纸质出版日期：2017-06，
  
  网络出版日期：2016-12-06，
  
  收稿日期：2016-05-02，
  
  修回日期：2016-10-17，
  
  录用日期：2016-10-27
- Accepted：
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Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna[J]. LSA, 2017,6(2).

Checcucci, S. et al. Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16245 (2017).
Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna[J]. LSA, 2017,6(2). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.245.

Checcucci, S. et al. Beaming light from a quantum emitter with a planar optical antenna. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16245 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.245.

摘要

Abstract

The efficient interaction of light with quantum emitters is crucial to most applications in nano and quantum photonics

such as sensing or quantum information processing. Effective excitation and photon extraction are particularly important for the weak signals emitted by a single atom or molecule. Recent works have introduced novel collection strategies

which demonstrate that large efficiencies can be achieved by either planar dielectric antennas combined with high numerical aperture objectives or optical nanostructures that beam emission into a narrow angular distribution. However

the first approach requires the use of elaborate collection optics

while the latter is based on accurate positioning of the quantum emitter near complex nanoscale architectures; hence

sophisticated fabrication and experimental capabilities are needed. Here we present a theoretical and experimental demonstration of a planar optical antenna that beams light emitted by a single molecule

which results in increased collection efficiency at small angles without stringent requirements on the emitter position. The proposed device exhibits broadband performance and is spectrally scalable

and it is simple to fabricate and therefore applies to a wide range of quantum emitters. Our design finds immediate application in spectroscopy

quantum optics and sensing.

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Keywords

collection efficiencyfluorescence microscopyoptical nano-antennassingle molecule

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