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Polarization-resolved extinction and scattering cross-section of individual gold nanoparticles measured by wide-field microscopy on a large ensemble
We report a simple, rapid, and quantitative wide-field technique to measure
the optical extinction and scattering
cross-section of single nanoparticles using wide-field microscopy enabling
simultaneous acquisition of hundreds of nanoparticles for statistical analysis.
As a proof of principle, we measured nominally spherical gold nanoparticles of
40\,nm and 100\,nm diameter and found mean values and standard deviations of
and consistent with previous literature.
Switching from unpolarized to linearly polarized excitation, we measured
as a function of the polarization direction, and used it to
characterize the asphericity of the nanoparticles. The method can be
implemented cost-effectively on any conventional wide-field microscope and is
applicable to any nanoparticles
Resonant state expansion applied to planar open optical systems
The resonant state expansion (RSE), a novel perturbation theory of
Brillouin-Wigner type developed in electrodynamics [Muljarov, Langbein, and
Zimmermann, Europhys. Lett., 92, 50010(2010)], is applied to planar,
effectively one-dimensional optical systems, such as layered dielectric slabs
and Bragg reflector microcavities. It is demonstrated that the RSE converges
with a power law in the basis size. Algorithms for error estimation and their
reduction by extrapolation are presented and evaluated. Complex
eigenfrequencies, electro-magnetic fields, and the Green's function of a
selection of optical systems are calculated, as well as the observable
transmission spectra. In particular we find that for a Bragg-mirror
microcavity, which has sharp resonances in the spectrum, the transmission
calculated using the resonant state expansion reproduces the result of the
transfer/scattering matrix method
Resonant state expansion applied to two-dimensional open optical systems
The resonant state expansion (RSE), a rigorous perturbative method in
electrodynamics, is applied to two-dimensional open optical systems. The
analytically solvable homogeneous dielectric cylinder is used as unperturbed
system, and its Green's function is shown to contain a cut in the complex
frequency plane, which is included in the RSE basis. The complex
eigenfrequencies of modes are calculated using the RSE for a selection of
perturbations which mix unperturbed modes of different orbital momentum, such
as half-cylinder, thin-film and thin-wire perturbation, demonstrating the
accuracy and convergency of the method. The resonant states for the thin-wire
perturbation are shown to reproduce an approximative analytical solution
Polariton states bound to defects in GaAs/AlAs planar microcavities
We report on polariton states bound to defects in planar GaAs/AlAs
microcavities grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The defect types relevant for
the spatial polariton dynamics in these structures are cross-hatch misfit
dislocations, and point-like defects extended over several micrometers. We
attribute the latter defects to Ga droplets emitted occasionally by the Ga cell
during the growth. These defects, also known as oval defects, result in a
dome-like local modulation of surface, which is translated into the cavity
structure and leads to a lateral modulation of the cavity polariton energy of
up to 15\,meV. The resulting spatially localized potential landscape for the
in-plane polariton motion creates a series of bound states. These states were
characterized by spectrally resolved transmission imaging in real and
reciprocal space, and reveal the spatial potential created by the defects.
Interestingly, the defect states exhibit long lifetimes in the 10ps range,
which we attribute to a spatially smooth confinement potential
Resonant state expansion applied to planar waveguides
The resonant state expansion, a recently developed method in electrodynamics,
is generalized here to planar open optical systems with non-normal incidence of
light. The method is illustrated and verified on exactly solvable examples,
such as a dielectric slab and a Bragg reflector microcavity, for which explicit
analytic formulas are developed. This comparison demonstrates the accuracy and
convergence of the method. Interestingly, the spectral analysis of a dielectric
slab in terms of resonant states reveals an influence of waveguide modes in the
transmission. These modes, which on resonance do not couple to external light,
surprisingly do couple to external light for off-resonant excitation
Quantum complementarity of microcavity polaritons
We present an experiment that probes polariton quantum correlations by
exploiting quantum complementarity. Specifically, we find that polaritons in
two distinct idler-modes interfere if and only if they share the same
signal-mode so that "which-way" information cannot be gathered. The
experimental results prove the existence of polariton pair correlations that
store the "which-way" information. This interpretation is confirmed by a
theoretical analysis of the measured interference visibility in terms of
quantum Langevin equations
Parametric scattering of microcavity polaritons into ghost branches
Polaritons of defined momentum and energy are excited resonantly on the lower polariton branch of a planar semiconductor microcavity in the strong coupling regime, and the spectrally and momentum resolved emission is analyzed. We observe ghost branches from scattering within the lower polariton branch, as well as from scattering to the middle polariton branch, showing the nonlinear mixing between different branches. Extending the theoretical treatment of spontaneous parametric luminescence developed in Ciuti et al. [Phys. Rev. B 63, 041303 (2001)], the eigenmodes of the driven polariton system and its photoluminescence are modeled. A quantitative agreement with the measured branch positions and a qualitative agreement with the branch intensities is found
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