Abstract
We show that metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion support a large number of electromagnetic states that can couple to quantum emitters leading to a broadband Purcell effect. The proposed approach of radiative decay engineering, useful for applications such as single photon sources, fluorescence imaging, biosensing, and single molecule detection, also opens up the possibility of using hyperbolic metamaterials to probe the spontaneous emission properties of atoms and artificial atoms such as quantum dots. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4710548]
Keywords
QUANTUM DOTS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; NEGATIVE REFRACTION; OPTICAL HYPERLENS; WAVE-GUIDES; DENSITY; LASERS
DOI
10.1063/1.4710548
Citation
Zubin Jacob, Igor I. Smolyaninov, and Evgenii E. Narimanov. Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 181105 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4710548
Date of this Version
4-30-2012
Recommended Citation
Jacob, Zubin; Smolyaninov, Igor I.; and Narimanov, Evgenii E., "Broadband Purcell effect: Radiative decay engineering with metamaterials" (2012). Birck and NCN Publications. Paper 1204.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4710548
Comments
Copyright (2012) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 181105 (2012) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4710548. The following article has been submitted to/accepted by Applied Physics Letters. Copyright (2012) Zubin Jacob, Igor I. Smolyaninov, and Evgenii E. Narimanov. This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.