The design of metasurfaces allows to tailor their optical response with specific spectral and polarization features. We will see how the spectral response of metasurfaces can be fully understood and predicted thanks to the singularities in the complex frequency plane of the scattering matrix elements. This approach turns out to be especially relevant for deriving the scattered field in the time domain providing fruitful insights in the time dynamics of the metasurface. The singularity expansion method offers a rigorous approach for deriving analytic expressions of dispersive dielectric permittivities that share the properties of linear transfer functions. This approach can be used to derive an improved expression of the Debye Drude Lorentz model that complies with the mathematical properties of complex analysis and exhibiting excellent fits with experimental data.
A trimer of gold particles 50 nm in diameter is illuminated in oblique incidence by a plane wave. It is shown that one can fully focus light in only one nanogap and that the localization of the hot spot between the two nanogaps is controlled via the angle of incidence of the illuminating plane wave. The physical mechanism of this surprising phenomenon is unveiled. It relies on the excitation of opposite and in phase modes. Furthermore, balancing of the fundamental modes of the system permits to extinguish the dipolar moment of a metallic particle.
Photonic jets can be produced by the illumination of a micrometer dielectric particle by an optical plane wave, and are
characterized by a narrow elongated focal volume. Bessel beams have been widely studied in recent decades and are
commonly referred to as being "diffractionless" over long distances. The Bessel beam aspects of photonic jets are
investigated in this manuscript. In particular, we show that photonic jets take their properties from Bessel propagative
beams, but more complex phenomena are involved.
KEYWORDS: Nanoparticles, Dielectrics, Electromagnetism, Particles, Near field, Near field optics, Optical spheres, Radio propagation, Refractive index, Microlens
The electromagnetic backscattered response of a metallic nanoparticle located close to a dielectric microsphere
illuminated by a plane wave or a focused beam is theoretically investigated. It is demonstrated that the main contribution
of the microsphere consists in increasing the excitation field. Furthermore, investigation of dipolar emission close to the
microsphere shows a redirection of the radiated field in the backward direction.
We discuss the compound set of two dielectric microspheres to confine light in a three dimensional region of dimensions
on the order of the wavelength when the spheres are illuminated by a plane wave. This simple configuration enables the
reduction of the longitudinal dimension of so called photonic jets, together with a strong focusing effect. The beam
shaped in that way is suitable for applications requiring high longitudinal resolutions and/or strong peak intensities.
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