TY - CONF

T1 - Optical super-resonances in dielectric microsphere particles

T2 - SPIE Photonics Europe 2022

AU - Wang, Zengbo (James )

AU - Luk'yanchuk, Boris

AU - Wu, Baidong

AU - Yan, Bing

AU - Assel, Ahmetova

AU - Yaminsky, Igor

AU - Yu, Haibo

AU - Liu, Lianqing

N1 - Conference code: 12152

PY - 2022/5/24

Y1 - 2022/5/24

N2 - Extreme field localization and giant field enhancement are often achieved by using plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials such as strongly coupled silver nanoparticles. Dielectric particles and structures can focus light beyond thediffraction limit (photonic nanojet effect), but with much weaker strengths. Recently, we showed that dielectric microspheres could support high-order Mie resonance modes (‘super-resonance modes’), that can generate similar levelof electric field intensity enhancement as plasmonic structures on the order of 10^4 - 10^7. In this work, we aim to further advance our understanding of the super-resonance modes. New results on the effects of size parameter and refractive index on optical super-resonances across a wide parameter range and with improved numerical accuracies is presented. The results suggest that the electric field intensity enhancement could reach a record high level of 10^9 -10^11 at specific conditions that surpass plasmonic enhancements. Moreover, super-resonance-enabled focusing by microsphere lens under different lighting sources (e.g., different colour LEDs or lasers, halogen lamps) is investigated andcompared for the first time. These results are important in understanding the super-resolution mechanism for microsphere nanoscopy and will find numerous potential applications in photonics.

AB - Extreme field localization and giant field enhancement are often achieved by using plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials such as strongly coupled silver nanoparticles. Dielectric particles and structures can focus light beyond thediffraction limit (photonic nanojet effect), but with much weaker strengths. Recently, we showed that dielectric microspheres could support high-order Mie resonance modes (‘super-resonance modes’), that can generate similar levelof electric field intensity enhancement as plasmonic structures on the order of 10^4 - 10^7. In this work, we aim to further advance our understanding of the super-resonance modes. New results on the effects of size parameter and refractive index on optical super-resonances across a wide parameter range and with improved numerical accuracies is presented. The results suggest that the electric field intensity enhancement could reach a record high level of 10^9 -10^11 at specific conditions that surpass plasmonic enhancements. Moreover, super-resonance-enabled focusing by microsphere lens under different lighting sources (e.g., different colour LEDs or lasers, halogen lamps) is investigated andcompared for the first time. These results are important in understanding the super-resolution mechanism for microsphere nanoscopy and will find numerous potential applications in photonics.

U2 - 10.1117/12.2621072

DO - 10.1117/12.2621072

M3 - Paper

SP - 1215205

Y2 - 3 April 2022 through 7 April 2022

ER -