Coherent control of nanoscale light localization in metamaterial: creating and positioning a sub-wavelength energy hot-spot

Abstract

Precise control and manipulation of optical fields on a nanoscale is one of the most important and challenging problems in "nanophotonics". Since optical wavelength is on a much larger microscale, it is impossible to employ conventional focusing for that purpose. We show the strong optically-induced interactions between discrete meta-molecules in a metamaterial system and coherent monochromatic continuous light beam with a spatially-tailored phase profile can be used to prepare a sub-wavelength scale energy localization. Well isolated energy hot-spots as small as $\lambda /10$ can be created and positioned at will on the metamaterial landscape offering new opportunities for data storage and imaging applications.

7 pages, 4 figures

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