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Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 19, Iss. 22 — Oct. 24, 2011
  • pp: 22142–22155

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Suppression of long-range collective effects in meta-surfaces formed by plasmonic antenna pairs

S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Burton Neuner, David Y. Fozdar, Timothy D. Corrigan, Paul W. Kolb, H. Dennis Drew, Raymond J. Phaneuf, Andrea Alù, and Gennady Shvets  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 22, pp. 22142-22155 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.022142


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Abstract

The collective effects in a periodic array of plasmonic double-antenna meta-molecules are studied. We experimentally observe that the collective behavior in this structure substantially differs from the one observed in their single-antenna counterparts. This behavior is explained using an analytical dipole model. We find that in the double-antenna case the effective dipole-dipole interaction is significantly modified and the transverse long-range interaction is suppressed, giving rise to the disappearance of Wood’s anomalies. Numerical calculations also show that such suppression of long-range interaction results in an anomalous spatial dispersion of the electric-dipolar mode, making it insensitive to the angle of incidence. In contrast, the quadrupolar mode of the antenna pair experiences strong spatial dispersion. These results show that collective effects in plasmonic metamaterials are very sensitive to the design and topology of meta-molecules. Our findings envision the possibility of suppressing the spatial dispersion effects to weaken the dependence of the metamaterials’ response on the incidence angle.

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OCIS Codes
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials
(350.4238) Other areas of optics : Nanophotonics and photonic crystals
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics
(310.6628) Thin films : Subwavelength structures, nanostructures

ToC Category:
Plasmonics

History
Original Manuscript: July 22, 2011
Revised Manuscript: September 15, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 16, 2011
Published: October 24, 2011

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S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Burton Neuner, David Y. Fozdar, Timothy D. Corrigan, Paul W. Kolb, H. Dennis Drew, Raymond J. Phaneuf, Andrea Alù, and Gennady Shvets, "Suppression of long-range collective effects in meta-surfaces formed by plasmonic antenna pairs," Opt. Express 19, 22142-22155 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-22-22142


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