Dynamically reconfigurable directionality of plasmon-based single photon sources
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Dynamically reconfigurable directionality of plasmon-based single photon sources
We propose a plasmon-based reconfigurable antenna to controllably distribute emission from single quantum emitters in spatially separated channels. Our calculations show that crossed particle arrays can split the stream of photons from a single emitter into multiple narrow beams. We predict that beams can be switched on and off by switching host refractive index. The design method is based on e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1098-0121,1550-235X
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.82.081402