Ultracompact energy transfer in anapole-based metachains
arXiv:2103.01457 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01571
Abstract
Realization of electromagnetic energy confinement beyond the diffraction limit is of paramount importance for novel applications like nano-imaging, information processing, and energy harvest. Current approaches based on surface plasmon polaritons and photonic crystals are either intrinsically lossy or with low coupling efficiency. Herein, we successfully address these challenges by constructing an array of nonradiative anapoles that originate from the destructive far-field interference of electric and toroidal dipole modes. The proposed metachain can achieve ultracompact (1/13 of incident wavelength) and high-efficiency electromagnetic energy transfer without the coupler. We experimentally investigate the proposed metachain at mid-infrared and give the first near-field experimental evidence of anapole-based energy transfer, in which the spatial profile of anapole mode is also unambiguously identified at nanoscale. We further demonstrate the metachain is intrinsically lossless and scalable at infrared wavelengths, realizing a 90 bending loss down to 0.32 dB at the optical communication wavelength. The present scheme bridges the gap between the energy confinement and transfer of anapoles, and opens a new gate for more compactly integrated photonic and energy devices, which can operate in a broad spectral range.
arXiv comment10 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcome. Supplementary materials are available upon request
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