Directional toroidal dipoles driven by oblique poloidal current flows in plasmonic meta-atoms

Abstract

The toroidal dipole is an exquisite electromagnetic momentum apart from the classical multipoles family that can be localized and squeezed in an extremely tiny spot. This mode, in optical nanosystems, can be particularly distinguished as a non-radiating charge-current configuration, manifests in a head-to-tail fashion. Here going beyond conventional toroidal dipoles, we explained the possibility of the excitation of directional toroidal dipoles in plasmonic meta-atoms driven by controlling the oblique poloidal fluxes. We showed that the unique structural properties of the proposed asymmetric design lead to the formation of multiple toroidal modes with opposite poloidal current flows.

5 pages, 4 figures