Directional surface plasmon polariton scattering by single low-index dielectric nanoparticles: simulation and experiment

Xuqing Sun; Hongyao Liu; Liwen Jiang; Ruxue Wei; Chang Wang; Xue Wang; Xiaojuan Sun; Fei Wang; Xinchao Lu; Andrey B. Evlyukhin; Chengjun Huang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.484400

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 5, 765(2023)

Directional surface plasmon polariton scattering by single low-index dielectric nanoparticles: simulation and experiment

Xuqing Sun^1,2, Hongyao Liu¹, Liwen Jiang^1,2, Ruxue Wei^1,2, Chang Wang^1,2, Xue Wang^1,2, Xiaojuan Sun^1,2, Fei Wang^1,2, Xinchao Lu^1、*, Andrey B. Evlyukhin^3,4, and Chengjun Huang^1,2,5

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University, Hannover 30167, Germany

⁴e-mail: a.b.evlyukhin@daad-alumni.de

⁵e-mail: huangchengjun@ime.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Dec. 28, 2022

Accepted: Feb. 23, 2023

Published Online: Apr. 27, 2023

The Author Email: Xinchao Lu (luxinchao@ime.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.484400

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