Nanophotonics (Aug 2021)

Mie-driven directional nanocoupler for Bloch surface wave photonic platform

  • Gulkin Dmitry N.,
  • Popkova Anna A.,
  • Afinogenov Boris I.,
  • Shilkin Daniil A.,
  • Kuršelis Kęstutis,
  • Chichkov Boris N.,
  • Bessonov Vladimir O.,
  • Fedyanin Andrey A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0295
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
pp. 2939 – 2947

Abstract

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Modern integrated photonic platforms should combine low-loss guiding, spectral flexibility, high light confinement, and close packing of optical components. One of the prominent platforms represents a one-dimensional photonic crystal combined with dielectric nanostructures that manipulate low-loss Bloch surface waves (BSWs). Proper design of nanostructures gives rise to a variety of optical resonances suitable for efficient capturing and controlling light. In this work, we achieve color-selective directional excitation of BSWs mediated by Mie resonances in a semiconductor nanoparticle. We show that a single silicon nanoparticle can be used as a subwavelength multiplexer switching the BSW excitation direction from forward to backward within the 30 nm spectral range with its central wavelength governed by the nanoparticle size. Our work opens a route for the on-demand fabrication of photonic nanocouplers with tailored optical properties and submicron footprint.

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