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most citedNanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

979 citations · 3.5k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

physics.optics2023

Direct electrical modulation of surface response in a single plasmonic nanoresonator

Luka Zurak, Christian Wolff, Jessica Meier +4

Classical electrodynamics describes the optical response of systems using bulk electronic properties and infinitesimally thin boundaries. However, due to the quantum nature of elec…

physics.optics2023

Anticrossing of a plasmonic nanoresonator mode and a single quantum dot at room temperature

Daniel Friedrich, Jin Qin, Benedikt Schurr +3

Room-temperature strong coupling of a single quantum emitter and a single resonant plasmonic mode is a key resource for quantum information processing and quantum sensing at ambien…

physics.optics2022★ 14 cited

Controlling field asymmetry in nanoscale gaps for second harmonic generation

Jessica Meier, Luka Zurak, Andrea Locatelli +3

Plasmonic dimer antennas create strong field enhancement by squeezing light into a nanoscale gap. These optical hotspots are highly attractive for boosting nonlinear processes, suc…

physics.optics2022★ 17 cited

Tunable nano-plasmonic photodetectors

Patrick Pertsch, René Kullock, Vinzenz Gabriel +3

Visible and infrared photons can be detected with a broadband response via the internal photoeffect. By using plasmonic nanostructures, i.e. nanoantennas, wavelength selectivity ca…

physics.optics2022★ 51 cited

Atomically smooth single-crystalline platform for low-loss plasmonic nanocavities

Lufang Liu, Alexey V. Krasavin, Junsheng Zheng +10

Nanoparticle-on-mirror plasmonic nanocavities, capable of extreme optical confinement and enhancement, have triggered state-of-the-art progress in nanophotonics and development of…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Single Quantum Emitter Dicke Enhancement

Tommaso Tufarelli, Daniel Friedrich, Heiko Groß +3

Coupling identical emitters to the same field mode is well-established method to enhance light matter interaction. However, the resulting boost of the coupling stren…

physics.optics2019★ 34 cited

Mono-crystalline Gold Platelets: A High Quality Platform for Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Korbinian J. Kaltenecker, Enno Krauss, Laura Casses +5

We use mono-crystalline gold platelets with ultra-smooth surfaces and superior plasmonic properties to investigate the formation of interference patterns caused by surface plasmon…

physics.app-ph2019★ 11 cited

Driving plasmonic nanoantennas at perfect impedance matching using generalized coherent perfect absorption

Philipp Grimm, Gary Razinskas, Jer-Shing Huang +1

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) describes the absence of all outgoing modes from a lossy resonator, driven by lossless incoming modes. Here, we show that for nanoresonators that…

physics.optics2019★ 30 cited

Nonclassical optical properties of mesoscopic gold

Swen Großmann, Daniel Friedrich, Michael Karolak +5

Gold nanostructures have important applications in nanoelectronics, nano-optics as well as in precision metrology due to their intriguing opto-electronic properties. These properti…

physics.optics2018

A Spin-Optical Nano Device

Enno Krauss, Gary Razinskas, Dominik Köck +2

The photon spin is an important resource for quantum information processing as is the electron spin in spintronics. However, for subwavelength confined optical excitations, polariz…

physics.optics2018★ 22 cited

Interference in edge-scattering from monocrystalline gold flakes

Sergejs Boroviks, Christian Wolff, Jes Linnet +6

We observe strongly dissimilar scattering from two types of edges in hexagonal quasi-monocrystalline gold flakes with thicknesses around 1 micron. We identify as the origin the int…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 29 cited

Evidence for cascaded third harmonic generation in non-centrosymmetric gold nanoantennas

Michele Celebrano, Andrea Locatelli, Lavinia Ghirardini +10

The optimization of nonlinear optical processes at the nanoscale is a crucial step for the development of nanoscale photon sources for quantum-optical networks. The development of…

physics.optics2017★ 13 cited

Transmission of plasmons through a nanowire

Peter Geisler, Enno Krauss, Gary Razinskas +1

Exact quantitative understanding of plasmon propagation along nanowires is mandatory for designing and creating functional devices. Here we investigate plasmon transmission through…

physics.optics2016

A quantum plasmonic nanocircuit on a semiconductor platform

Xiaofei Wu, Ping Jiang, Gary Razinskas +8

Quantum photonics holds great promise for future technologies such as secure communication, quantum computation, quantum simulation, and quantum metrology. An outstanding challenge…

physics.optics2016★ 18 cited

Mode-matching for Optical Antennas

Thorsten Feichtner, Silke Christiansen, Bert Hecht

The emission rate of a point dipole can be strongly increased in presence of a well-designed optical antenna. Yet, optical antenna design is largely based on radio-frequency rules,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 27 cited

Electromechanically Tunable Suspended Optical Nano-antenna

Kai Chen, Gary Razinskas, Thorsten Feichtner +3

Coupling mechanical degrees of freedom with plasmonic resonances has potential applications in optomechanics, sensing, and active plasmonics. Here we demonstrate a suspended two-wi…

physics.optics2015★ 30 cited

Plasmonic nanoantenna design and fabrication based on evolutionary optimization

Thorsten Feichtner, Oleg Selig, Bert Hecht

Nanoantennas for light enhance light-matter interaction at the nanoscale making them useful in optical communication, sensing, and spectroscopy. So far nanoantenna engineering has…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 48 cited

Single-crystalline gold microplates grown on substrates by solution-phase synthesis

Xiaofei Wu, René Kullock, Enno Krauss +1

Chemically synthesized single-crystalline gold microplates have been attracting increasing interests because of their potential as high-quality gold films for nanotechnology. We pr…

physics.optics2015★ 286 cited

Electrically-driven optical antennas

Johannes Kern, René Kullock, Jord C. Prangsma +3

Unlike radiowave antennas, optical nanoantennas so far cannot be fed by electrical generators. Instead, they are driven by light or via optically active materials in their proximit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 557 cited

Mode-matching in multiresonant plasmonic nanoantennas for enhanced second harmonic generation

Michele Celebrano, Xiaofei Wu, Milena Baselli +10

Boosting nonlinear frequency conversion in extremely confined volumes remains a key challenge in nano-optics, nanomedicine, photocatalysis, and background-free biosensing. To this…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Nanoscale confinement of all-optical switching in TbFeCo using plasmonic antennas

TianMin Liu, Tianhan Wang, Alexander H. Reid +17

All-optical switching (AOS) of magnetic domains by femtosecond laser pulses was first observed in the transition metal-rare earth (TM-RE) alloy GdFeCo1-5; this phenomenon demonstra…

physics.optics2013★ 49 cited

Multimode plasmon excitation and in-situ analysis in top-down fabricated plasmonic nanocircuits

Peter Geisler, Gary Razinskas, Enno Krauss +7

We experimentally demonstrate synthesis and in-situ analysis of multimode plasmonic excitations in two-wire transmission lines supporting a symmetric and an antisymmetric eigenmode…

physics.optics2012★ 150 cited

Evolutionary optimization of optical antennas

Thorsten Feichtner, Oleg Selig, Markus Kiunke +1

The design of nano-antennas is so far mainly inspired by radio-frequency technology. However, material properties and experimental settings need to be reconsidered at optical frequ…

physics.optics2011★ 142 cited

Atomic-scale confinement of optical fields

Johannes Kern, Swen Grossmann, Nadezda V. Tarakina +7

In the presence of matter there is no fundamental limit preventing confinement of visible light even down to atomic scales. Achieving such confinement and the corresponding intensi…