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Hybrid plasmonic bullseye antennas for efficient photon collection

Abstract:

We propose highly efficient hybrid plasmonic bullseye antennas for collecting photon emission from nm-sized quantum emitters. In our approach, the emitter radiation is coupled to surface plasmon polaritons that are consequently converted into highly directional out-of-plane emission. The proposed configuration consists of a high-index titania bullseye grating separated from a planar silver film by a thin low-index silica spacer layer. Such hybrid systems are theoretically capable of directing 85% of the dipole emission into a 0.9 NA objective, while featuring a spectrally narrow-band tunable decay rate enhancement of close to 20 at the design wavelength. Hybrid antenna structures were fabricated by standard electron-beam lithography without the use of lossy adhesion layers that might be detrimental to antenna performance. The fabricated antennas remained undamaged at saturation laser powers exhibiting stable …