Anisotropic metamaterials for increased coupling to the near-field of small emitters
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Prof.S. Anantha Ramakrishna(Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
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Asia/Kolkata
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Description
Metamaterials can possess extremely large anisotropy resulting in hyperbolic dispersion of light (the equi-frequency surfaces become hyperboloids). This provides for good coupling to the modes with large transverse momentum in the near-field of small sized emitters including quantum emitters. This can be utilized to highly improve the outcoupling of light from these emitters. In this talk, I will present our work on two such systems: one, a nanostructured metamaterial fiber with hyperbolic dispersion and enhanced coupling to sources, and two, emission of NV centers in nanodiamonds placed in nano-columnar thin films of silver. The large improvement in outcoupling by several orders of magnitude makes these hyperbolic media of enormous potential for various applications.