Journal
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 301, Issue -, Pages 121-126Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2013.04.005
Keywords
Optical binding force; Nanorod dimer; Local surface plasmon resonance
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- NSFC [11004043, 11274083]
- Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Plan [JC201005260185A, JC201105160592A, JCYJ20120613114137248, 2011PTZZ048]
- Natural Scientific Research Innovation Foundation in Harbin Institute of Technology [HIT. NSFIR.2010131]
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By full-wave 3D electromagnetic simulations and using the Maxwell's stress tensor integration technique, we calculate the optical forces on a gold nanorod dimer placed head-to-tail near a metallic slab. It is found that the plasmonic resonance wavelength Ares of the system shifts obviously as the nanorod gap g and the dimer-slab spacing h are changed. Meanwhile, the optical forces under plane wave illumination crucially depend on the geometrical parameters and can be enhanced dramatically comparing to the bare dimer case. Moreover, numerical results show that when both g and h are far less than the resonant wavelength lambda(res), the resonant binding force between the two nanorods decreases, while the force acting on each nanorod toward the slab increases, both monotonically as h is reduced. On the contrary, as the dimer-slab spacing h increases, there is a local maximum force at h approximate to lambda(res)/4 for various g. Both the strong near-field coupling and the standing wave formed by incident and reflected waves need to be accounted for the observed characteristics in the optical force spectra. Our results are useful for selective optical manipulation on particles over a substrate platform. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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