期刊
ACS NANO
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 3908-3916出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01380
关键词
cathodoluminescence; aluminum plasmonics; reciprocity theorem; circular polarization; deep-subwavelength
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资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0205700]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB932403, 2017YFA0206000]
- National Science Foundation of China [11674012, 61422501, 11374023, 61521004]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [L140007]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China [201420]
- National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals [W02070003]
The chiral state of light plays a vital role in light-matter interactions and the consequent revolution of nanophotonic devices and advanced modern chiroptics. As the light-matter interaction goes into the nano- and quantum world, numerous chiroptical technologies and quantum devices require precise knowledge of chiral electromagnetic modes and chiral radiative local density of states (LDOS) distributions in detail, which directly determine the chiral light-matter interaction for applications such as chiral light detection and emission. With classical optical techniques failing to directly measure the chiral radiative LDOS, deep-subwavelength imaging and control of circular polarization (CP) light associated phenomena are introduced into the agenda. Here, we simultaneously reveal the hidden chiral electromagnetic mode and acquire its chiral radiative LDOS distribution of a single symmetric nanostructure at the deep-subwavelength scale by using CP-resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy. The chirality of the symmetric nanostructure under normally incident light excitation, resulting from the interference between the symmetric and antisymmetric modes of the V-shaped nanoantenna, is hidden in the near field with a giant chiral distribution (similar to 99%) at the arm-ends, which enables the circularly polarized CL emission from the radiative LDOS hot-spot and the following active helicity control at the deep-subwavelength scale. The proposed V-shaped nanostructure as a functional unit is further applied to the helicity-dependent binary encoding and the two-dimensional display applications. The proposed physical principle and experimental configuration can promote the future chiral characterization and manipulation at the deep-subwavelength scale and provide direct guidelines for the optimization of chiral light-matter interactions for future quantum studies.
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