Plasmon lifetime enhancement in a bright-dark mode coupled system
arXiv:1905.07248 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.035416
Abstract
Metallic nanoparticles can localize the incident light to hotspots as plasmon oscillations, where the intensity can be increased up to four orders of magnitude. Even though the lifetime of plasmons are typically short, it can be increased via interactions with quantum emitters, e.g. spaser nano-lasers. However, molecules can bleach in days. Here, we study the lifetime enhancement of plasmon excitations due to the coupling with longer lifetime dark plasmon modes. Exact solutions of the 3D Maxwell equations, i.e. FDTD, demonstrates that the lifetime of the coupled system increases, as also predicted by a basic oscillator model. We report an optimum bright-dark plasmon mode coupling, where lifetime enhancement becomes maximum, and show that no precise positioning of the nanostructures is required to obtain enhanced lifetime.
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