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双曲型超材料纳米缝隙波导中的巨横向光动力

Giant Transverse Optical Forces in Nanoscale Slot Waveguides of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Yingran He, Sailing He, Jie Gao, Xiaodong Yang

摘要:

在这里,我们证明了巨大的横向光学力可以在双曲型超材料的纳米尺度槽波导中产生,由于纳米尺度光场增强和空气槽区域内的极端光能压缩,与传统硅槽波导中产生的力相比,具有两个以上的数量级。数值模拟和解析处理进行研究的光力的波导的几何形状和超材料的介电常数张量的依赖关系,包括吸引力的对称模式和排斥力的反对称模式的光。横向光学力的显著增强是由于两个超材料波导之间的强光模耦合强度,这可以用耦合模理论推导出的显式关系来解释。对实际金属-介质多层膜结构的计算表明,所预言的巨大光动力在实验上是可以实现的,这将为纳米尺度的光机械应用,如光纳机电系统、光传感器和光致动器等打开大门。

英文摘要:

Here we demonstrate that giant transverse optical forces can be generated in nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials, with more than two orders of magnitude stronger compared to the force created in conventional silicon slot waveguides, due to the nanoscale optical field enhancement and the extreme optical energy compression within the air slot region. Both numerical simulation and analytical treatment are carried out to study the dependence of the optical forces on the waveguide geometries and the metamaterial permittivity tensors, including the attractive optical forces for the symmetric modes and the repulsive optical forces for the anti-symmetric modes. The significantly enhanced transverse optical forces result from the strong optical mode coupling strength between two metamaterial waveguides, which can be explained with an explicit relation derived from the coupled mode theory. Moreover, the calculation on realistic metal-dielectric multilayer structures indicates that the predicted giant optical forces are achievable in experiments, which will open the door for various optomechanical applications in nanoscale, such as optical nanoelectromechanical systems, optical sensors and actuators.

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