Dragomir N. Neshev
Australian National University
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ACS Nano | 2013
Isabelle Staude; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Manuel Decker; Nche Tumasang Fofang; Sheng Liu; Edward Gonzales; Jason Dominguez; Ting Shan Luk; Dragomir N. Neshev; Igal Brener; Yuri S. Kivshar
Interference of optically induced electric and magnetic modes in high-index all-dielectric nanoparticles offers unique opportunities for tailoring directional scattering and engineering the flow of light. In this article we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the interference of electric and magnetic optically induced modes in individual subwavelength silicon nanodisks can lead to the suppression of resonant backscattering and to enhanced resonant forward scattering of light. To this end we spectrally tune the nanodisks fundamental electric and magnetic resonances with respect to each other by a variation of the nanodisk aspect ratio. This ability to tune two modes of different character within the same nanoparticle provides direct control over their interference, and, in consequence, allows for engineering the particles resonant and off-resonant scattering patterns. Most importantly, measured and numerically calculated transmittance spectra reveal that backward scattering can be suppressed and forward scattering can be enhanced at resonance for the particular case of overlapping electric and magnetic resonances. Our experimental results are in good agreement with calculations based on the discrete dipole approach as well as finite-integral frequency-domain simulations. Furthermore, we show useful applications of silicon nanodisks with tailored resonances as optical nanoantennas with strong unidirectional emission from a dipole source.
Physical Review Letters | 2004
Dragomir N. Neshev; Tristram J. Alexander; Elena A. Ostrovskaya; Yuri S. Kivshar; Hector Martin; Igor Makasyuk; Zhigang Chen
We report on the first experimental observation of discrete vortex solitons in two-dimensional optically induced photonic lattices. We demonstrate strong stabilization of an optical vortex by the lattice in a self-focusing nonlinear medium and study the generation of the discrete vortices from a broad class of singular beams.
Optics Letters | 2003
Dragomir N. Neshev; Elena A. Ostrovskaya; Yuri S. Kivshar; Wieslaw Krolikowski
We study experimentally nonlinear localization effects in optically induced gratings created by interfering plane waves in a photorefractive crystal. We demonstrate the generation of spatial bright solitons similar to those observed in arrays of coupled optical waveguides. We also create pairs of out-of-phase solitons, which resemble twisted localized states in nonlinear lattices.
Physical Review Letters | 2011
Alexander Minovich; Angela E. Klein; Norik Janunts; Thomas Pertsch; Dragomir N. Neshev; Yuri S. Kivshar
We demonstrate experimentally the generation and near-field imaging of nondiffracting surface waves, plasmonic Airy beams, propagating on the surface of a gold metal film. The Airy plasmons are excited by an engineered nanoscale phase grating, and demonstrate significant beam bending over their propagation. We show that the observed Airy plasmons exhibit self-healing properties, suggesting novel applications in plasmonic circuitry and surface optical manipulation.
Nano Letters | 2014
Maxim R. Shcherbakov; Dragomir N. Neshev; Ben Hopkins; Alexander S. Shorokhov; Isabelle Staude; Elizaveta V. Melik-Gaykazyan; Manuel Decker; Alexander A. Ezhov; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Igal Brener; Andrey A. Fedyanin; Yuri S. Kivshar
We observe enhanced third-harmonic generation from silicon nanodisks exhibiting both electric and magnetic dipolar resonances. Experimental characterization of the nonlinear optical response through third-harmonic microscopy and spectroscopy reveals that the third-harmonic generation is significantly enhanced in the vicinity of the magnetic dipole resonances. The field localization at the magnetic resonance results in two orders of magnitude enhancement of the harmonic intensity with respect to unstructured bulk silicon with the conversion efficiency limited only by the two-photon absorption in the substrate.
Journal of Optics B-quantum and Semiclassical Optics | 2004
Wieslaw Krolikowski; Ole Bang; Nikola I. Nikolov; Dragomir N. Neshev; John Wyller; J J Rasmussen; Darran Edmundson
We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the collapse of finite-size beams, and the formation and interaction of spatial solitons.
Nano Letters | 2015
Katie E. Chong; Isabelle Staude; Anthony James; Jason Dominguez; Sheng Liu; Salvatore Campione; Ganapathi S. Subramania; Ting S. Luk; Manuel Decker; Dragomir N. Neshev; Igal Brener; Yuri S. Kivshar
We experimentally demonstrate a functional silicon metadevice at telecom wavelengths that can efficiently control the wavefront of optical beams by imprinting a spatially varying transmittance phase independent of the polarization of the incident beam. Near-unity transmittance efficiency and close to 0-2π phase coverage are enabled by utilizing the localized electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances of low-loss silicon nanoparticles tailored to behave as electromagnetically dual-symmetric scatterers. We apply this concept to realize a metadevice that converts a Gaussian beam into a vortex beam. The required spatial distribution of transmittance phases is achieved by a variation of the lattice spacing as a single geometric control parameter.
Physical Review Letters | 2006
Alexander Dreischuh; Dragomir N. Neshev; Dan E. Petersen; Ole Bang; Wieslaw Krolikowski
We demonstrate a dramatic change in the interaction forces between dark solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. We present what we believe is the first experimental evidence of attraction of dark solitons. Our results indicate that attraction should be observable in other nonlocal systems, such as Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive long-range interparticle interaction.
Physical Review Letters | 2006
Christian R. Rosberg; Dragomir N. Neshev; Wieslaw Krolikowski; Arnan Mitchell; Rodrigo A. Vicencio; Mario I. Molina; Yuri S. Kivshar
We report on the observation of surface gap solitons found to exist at the interface between uniform and periodic dielectric media with defocusing nonlinearity. We demonstrate strong self-trapping at the edge of a LiNbO3 waveguide array and the formation of staggered surface solitons with propagation constant inside the first photonic band gap. We study the crossover between linear repulsion and nonlinear attraction at the surface, revealing the mechanism of nonlinearity-mediated stabilization of the surface gap modes.
ACS Nano | 2012
Wei Liu; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Dragomir N. Neshev; Yuri S. Kivshar
Core-shell nanoparticles have attracted surging interests due to their flexibly tunable resonances and various applications in medical diagnostics, biosensing, nanolasers, and many other fields. The core-shell nanoparticles can support simultaneously both electric and magnetic resonances, and when the resonances are properly engineered, entirely new properties can be achieved. Here we study core-shell nanoparticles that support both electric and artificial magnetic dipolar modes, which are engineered to coincide spectrally with the same strength. We reveal that the interferences of these two resonances result in azimuthally symmetric unidirectional scattering, which can be further improved by arranging the nanoparticles in a chain, with both azimuthal symmetry and vanishing backward scattering preserved over a wide spectral range. We also demonstrate that the vanishing backward scattering is preserved, even for random particle distributions, which can find applications in the fields of nanoantennas, photovoltaic devices, and nanoscale lasers that require backward scattering suppressions.