The spin angular momentum of light can induce the orbital rotation of matter via spin-orbit angular momentum conversion. In this work, we demonstrate the orbital rotation of nanoparticles using two different physical mechanisms. First, a nanoscale Poynting vector vortex is created above the nanogap of a plasmonic trimer nanoantenna upon circularly polarized laser irradiation. Using these trimer nanotweezers, single fluorescent nanodiamond trapping and rotation is experimentally achieved. Second, the orbital rotation of VO2 nanoparticles is achieved using a focused, circularly polarized Gaussian laser beam. We demonstrate that the non-linear optical response caused by the insulator-to-metal phase transition of VO2 leads to the formation of an annular trapping potential well around the center of the laser beam.
The ability to control nanoscale motions of nanomaterials is expected to play significant roles in various fields such as photophysics, photochemistry and biological applications. For the optical nanomanipulation, metal nanoantenna structures are widely used. These plasmonic structures can confine light into nano-sized volumes and enhance the nanoscale light-matter interactions. In this paper, we demonstrated that precise orbital rotational motion is driven by the angular momentum that is transferred from photon to plasmonic nanoantenna. We present the numerical simulation results and discussion on the mechanism of the angular momenta transfer. Then, we show the experimental results on the rotational manipulation of a nanodiamond using plasmonic trimer structure.
In this work, we explore a new bottom-up approach based on plasmon-assisted hydrothermal synthesis (PAHS) to achieve localized growth of zinc oxide (ZnO) in hybrid nanophotonic devices. By engineering gold nanogap antennas, we achieve efficient control over the localization and enhancement of both the electric field and the generated heat. A nanobutterfly antenna is designed to achieve both polarization-dependent heat localization and localized electric field enhancement. A few-nm-thick ZnO layer is grown at the targeted location of the nanogap antenna thanks to selective plasmonic heating. We also numerically study the back-action induced by the material synthesis on the heat generated by the antenna and show how PAHS can be used as a self-limited growth method. The PAHS method opens new perspectives for the design and fabrication of hybrid nanophotonic devices.
Metallic nanostructures can be designed to act not only as nanoscale optical antenna but also as much localized heat sources. Although both aspects are usually independently investigated, we conduct here a multiphysics approach to design multipurpose plasmonic nanogap antennas. On the one hand, by mean of a hydrothermal synthesis reaction, we make use of the localized heat production to control the growth of a ZnO layer at the surface of the targeted part of a gold nanoantenna. On the other hand, the fabricated hybrid plasmonic-photonic nanoantenna allows for large electric field enhancement inside ZnO-filled plasmonic nanogaps. Such nanodevice could find application as nanoscale light source.
We experimentally demonstrated the manipulation and transportation of nano-diamonds with diameters of 50 nm using a thin tapered fiber. When a green laser was injected from one side of the fiber and a near-infrared laser was also injected from the opposite side, nano-diamonds could be stopped on the fiber. When the balanced power for stopping nanodiamonds, we confirmed that the balanced powers were clearly different for fluorescent and non-fluorescent nanodiamonds and that for fluorescent nano-diamonds was smaller than non-fluorescent ones, which could be responsible for the difference in absorption. This result suggested the possibility that the macroscopic motion of nano-materials could be controlled based on their resonant absorption property.
We investigate the wavelength dependence of localized plasmonic field distributions in a gold nanodimer structure
under total internal reflection condition. Although a gold dimer structure is well known to induce strong localized mode at
a nanogap, we find that the higher-order plasmonic modes are excited by the oblique light incidence and their interference
effect enables us to observe the modification of localized filed distributions at the nano-scale even in a simple gold
nanodimer structure depending on the detection wavelength. This change in the plasmonic field distribution would
provide important knowledge for their potential applications such as plasmonic trapping, spectroscopy, and sensing.
We demonstrated a novel ultraviolet random lasing in a diamond nanoparticle film, in which above the threshold, several sharp peaks appeared at the center of spontaneous emission around 380 nm. In order to improve the lasing properties, we measured the annealing temperature dependence to examine the influence of the sp2 layer on the surface of diamond nanoparticles, which was considered to quench the emission from a diamond body (sp3 diamond). From the results, we found that UV random lasing was able to observe in a diamond nanoparticle film when the annealing temperature was from 400 to 700 ˚C, although the lasing was hard to observe when the annealing temperature was below 300 ˚C. However, regardless of annealing temperature (above 400 ˚C), UV random lasing properties did not change, in which random lasing peaks clearly concentrated around the center of spontaneous emission and their thresholds were dispersed from several tens to several hundred MW/cm2. These results suggest that annealing at suitable temperature is important to induce UV random lasing, whereas random lasing properties (lasing wavelength, lasing threshold) do not change even if annealing temperature change from 400 to 700 ˚C.
We proposed a plasmonic-WGM hybrid system composed of a tapered-fiber-coupled microsphere resonator and a PICattached gold tip to focus the incident light into a nanoscale domain (~728.8 nm2) with high coupling efficiency of ~80.3 % and the Q factor of ~1.9×106. In order to experimentally verify the strong interaction between light and matter owing to efficient excitation of localized surface plasmon at the gold-coated tip, we demonstrated to observe two-photon excited fluorescence from PIC dye molecules attached on the gold-coated tip even under a weak CW excitation condition via a tapered-fiber-coupled microsphere resonator.
We experimentally examined our proposed structure for realizing the control of resonant and lasing properties even in random structures, which was composed of size-mono-dispersive scatterers and intentionally introduced defect regions. In the experiments, by intentionally introducing polymer nanoparticles as point defects into a mono-dispersive zinc oxide nanoparticle film, we succeeded that lasing properties at the defect region were drastically modified, comparing with those of typical random lasers; suppression of the number of lasing modes, decrease in the thresholds, and limiting the lasing position at the defect. These results suggest the possibility that we can realize single-mode random lasers with well-controlled modal properties even in random structures.
The efficient coupling of light from a tapered fiber coupled microsphere resonator to localized surface plasmon modes of
Au-coated tip was demonstrated. To verify efficient localized surface plasmon excitation at the metal tip via a tapered
fiber coupled microsphere resonator, we measured second harmonic generation from the top of Au-coated tip. From the
results, in spite of a weak CW excitation, we succeeded in repeatedly observing SHG from the top of the Au-coated tip
via a tapered fiber coupled microsphere resonator system, which could focus the light with the coupling efficiency of
about 63.2 % into the nanoscale domain of the metal tip with the effective cross section of 358.2 nm2.
Up-conversion lasing of a new random medium, which is composed of thulium-ion-doped fluorozirconate glass particles and TiO2 powders, is demonstrated. In this medium, it is expected that the near-infrared excitation light will deeply penetrate into the random medium to induce multiphoton excitation processes, while the emission in the visible wavelength region will be confined in small volumes by the strong multiple light scattering. When the power of the excitation light was increased, sharp emission peaks appeared and their peak intensities increased relative to the background spontaneous emission. The excitation power dependence clearly shows the lasing threshold.
KEYWORDS: Glasses, Upconversion, Zirconium, Nd:YAG lasers, Optical microscopy, Near field, Optical spheres, Scanning electron microscopy, Near field optics, Scientific research
Upconversion lasing of a thulium-ion-doped zirconium fluoride glass microsphere was demonstrated. The microsphere was pumped by a fundamental wave of a Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm) at room temperature. The lasing emission was observed in 480-nm and 800-nm regions, and their lasing thresholds were determined to be approximately 20 mW and approximately 5 mW, respectively. The application to near-field optical microscopy is also discussed.
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