Breakthroughs in Photonics 2013: Advances in Nanoantennas

The field of nanoantennas overlaps several areas of scientific interest, from fundamental physics to commercial technologies. Advances in the understanding of such complex devices hold the promises to novel applications in sensing, telecommunications, optical processing, and security, among others. Here, we review the main advances in the field of nanoantennas in 2013, from single metallic and dielectric devices to nanostructured metasurfaces and phased arrays.

[1]  Arnan Mitchell,et al.  Dielectric resonator nanoantennas at visible frequencies. , 2013, Optics express.

[2]  Albert Polman,et al.  Resonant modes of single silicon nanocavities excited by electron irradiation. , 2013, ACS nano.

[3]  J Aizpurua,et al.  Experimental verification of the spectral shift between near- and far-field peak intensities of plasmonic infrared nanoantennas. , 2013, Physical review letters.

[4]  Ming C. Wu,et al.  Efficient coupling of optical-antenna based nanoLED to a photonic waveguide , 2013, 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference.

[5]  Amir Boag,et al.  Quantum nonreciprocity of nanoscale antenna arrays in timed Dicke states. , 2013, Physical review letters.

[6]  Pei Wang,et al.  Tailoring the directivity of both excitation and emission of dipole simultaneously with two-colored plasmonic antenna. , 2013, Optics express.

[7]  Ming C. Wu,et al.  Optical phased array using high contrast gratings for two dimensional beamforming and beamsteering. , 2013, Optics express.

[8]  Federico Capasso,et al.  Flat Optics: Controlling Wavefronts With Optical Antenna Metasurfaces , 2013, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[9]  I. Maksymov,et al.  Cascaded four-wave mixing in tapered plasmonic nanoantenna. , 2012, Optics letters.

[10]  Jing Kong,et al.  Broad electrical tuning of graphene-loaded plasmonic antennas. , 2013, Nano letters.

[11]  Andrea Alù,et al.  Individual nanoantennas loaded with three-dimensional optical nanocircuits. , 2013, Nano letters.

[12]  Hervé Rigneault,et al.  A plasmonic 'antenna-in-box' platform for enhanced single-molecule analysis at micromolar concentrations. , 2013, Nature nanotechnology.

[13]  I. Brener,et al.  Tailoring directional scattering through magnetic and electric resonances in subwavelength silicon nanodisks. , 2013, ACS nano.

[14]  Mohsen Rahmani,et al.  Ultrasensitive broadband probing of molecular vibrational modes with multifrequency optical antennas. , 2013, ACS nano.

[15]  Dries Vercruysse,et al.  Unidirectional side scattering of light by a single-element nanoantenna. , 2013, Nano letters.

[16]  Federico Capasso,et al.  Flat Optics: Controlling Wavefronts With Optical Antenna Metasurfaces , 2013, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[17]  Hossein Mosallaei,et al.  METASURFACE NANOANTENNAS FOR LIGHT PROCESSING , 2013 .

[18]  Connie J. Chang-Hasnain,et al.  High-quality InP nanoneedles grown on silicon , 2013 .

[19]  Federico Capasso,et al.  Buried nanoantenna arrays: versatile antireflection coating. , 2013, Nano letters.

[20]  Etienne Le Coarer,et al.  Waveguide-coupled nanowire as an optical antenna. , 2013, Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision.

[21]  Timothy J. Davis,et al.  The plasmonic J-pole antenna , 2013 .

[22]  Ming C. Wu,et al.  Mass-producible and efficient optical antennas with CMOS-fabricated nanometer-scale gap. , 2013, Optics express.

[23]  T. Pakizeh,et al.  Highly directional bottom-up 3D nanoantenna for visible light , 2013, Scientific Reports.

[24]  N Engheta,et al.  Electronically controlled optical beam-steering by an active phased array of metallic nanoantennas. , 2013, Optics express.

[25]  Roel Baets,et al.  Enhancement of Raman scattering efficiency by a metallic nano-antenna on top of a high index contrast waveguide , 2013, CLEO: 2013.

[26]  Raj Mittra,et al.  Modeling large nonuniform optical antenna arrays for metasurface application , 2013 .

[27]  Michael R. Watts,et al.  Large-scale nanophotonic phased array , 2013, Nature.

[28]  A. Roberts,et al.  Tunable optical antennas enabled by the phase transition in vanadium dioxide. , 2013, Optics express.

[29]  Thomas Taubner,et al.  Using low-loss phase-change materials for mid-infrared antenna resonance tuning. , 2013, Nano letters.

[30]  Giorgio Volpe,et al.  Multipolar radiation of quantum emitters with nanowire optical antennas , 2013, Nature Communications.

[31]  G. N. Malheiros-Silveira,et al.  Dielectric resonator antenna for applications in nanophotonics. , 2013, Optics express.