Broadband Purcell effect: Radiative decay engineering with metamaterials

By Z. Jacob, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Evgenii Narimanov. 2009

442 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We show that metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion support a large number of electromagnetic states that can couple to quantum emitters leading to a broadband Purcell effect. The proposed approach of radiative decay engineering, useful for applications such as single photon sources, fluorescence imaging, biosensing, and single molecule detection, also opens up the possibility of using hyperbolic metamaterials to probe the spontaneous emission properties of atoms and artificial atoms such as quantum dots.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. W. Newman
2. Cristian L. Cortes
3. Z. Jacob
4. Igor I. Smolyaninov
5. Yu Guo
6. S. Molesky

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Igor I. Smolyaninov
2. W. Newman
3. Cristian L. Cortes
4. Yu Guo
5. Z. Jacob
6. S. Molesky

In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. W. Newman
2. Cristian L. Cortes
3. Igor I. Smolyaninov
4. Yu Guo
5. Z. Jacob
6. S. Molesky

Citations in the corpus

• Quantum nanophotonics using hyperbolic metamaterials (2012, methodology): “As opposed to this, for the HMM we get a hyperboloidal shell which has infinite volume and in the effective medium limit leads to a broadband singularity in the density of states [22].”
• Hyperbolic Metamaterials (2015, methodology): “Originally introduced to overcome the diffraction limit of optical imaging [1-2], hyperbolic metamaterials demonstrate a number of novel phenomena resulting from the broadband singular behavior of their density of photonic states [3], which range from super resolution imaging [2,4,5] to enhanced qua”
• Applications of Hyperbolic Metamaterial Substrates (2012, background): “The coupling to high-k states opens the possibility of high-contrast fluorescence imaging as well as sensitivephase measurements [20, 21, 44].”
• Extreme sensitivity biosensing platform based on hyperbolic metamaterials. (2016, background): “Their properties include the strong enhancement of spontaneous emission 28,29 , diverging density of states 30 , negative refraction 31,32 , biosensing 14 and enhanced superlensing effects 33 .”