Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Polarization-controlled directional scattering for nanoscopic position sensing

  • Martin Neugebauer,
  • Paweł Woźniak,
  • Ankan Bag,
  • Gerd Leuchs,
  • Peter Banzer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11286
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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High-refractive-index nanoantennas support magnetic and electric resonances that can be excited with structured light. Here, the authors exploit the interference of such resonances to achieve strong lateral directionality of the emission and utilize this effect for nanoscopic position sensing.