Local field enhancement using a photonic-plasmonic nanostructure

Over the last few years, optical nanoantennas are continuously attracting interest owing to their ability to efficiently confine, localize resonance, and significantly enhanced electromagnetic fields at a subwavelength scale. However, such strong confinement can be further enhanced by using an appropriate combination of optical nanoantennas and Slanted Bound states in the continuum cavities. Here, we propose to synergistically bridge the plasmonic nanoantennas and high optical quality-factor cavities to numerically demonstrate six orders of magnitude local intensity enhancement without critical coupling conditions. The proposed hybrid system paves a new way for applications requiring highly confined fields such as optical trapping, optical sensing, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, etc. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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Optical nanoantennas have the ability to efficiently confine, localize resonance, and significantly enhance electromagnetic fields at a subwavelength scale. By combining optical nanoantennas with Slanted Bound states in the continuum cavities, even stronger confinement can be achieved. The proposed hybrid system demonstrates six orders of magnitude local intensity enhancement, paving the way for applications such as optical trapping, optical sensing, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics.