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Controlling Spontaneous Emission with Plasmonic Optical Patch Antennas

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We experimentally demonstrate the control of the spontaneous emission rate and the radiation pattern of colloidal quantum dots deterministically positioned in a plasmonic patch antenna. The antenna consists of a thin gold microdisk separated from a planar gold layer by a few tens of nanometers thick dielectric layer. The emitters are shown to radiate through the entire patch antenna in a highly directional and vertical radiation pattern. Strong acceleration of spontaneous emission is observed, depending on the antenna geometry. Considering the double dipole structure of the emitters, this corresponds to a Purcell factor up to 80 for dipoles perpendicular to the disk.

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hal-00821543 , version 1 (10-05-2013)

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Cherif Belacel, Benjamin Habert, Florian Bigourdan, François Marquier, Jean-Paul Hugonin, et al.. Controlling Spontaneous Emission with Plasmonic Optical Patch Antennas. Nano Letters, 2013, 13 (4), pp.1516-1521. ⟨10.1021/nl3046602⟩. ⟨hal-00821543⟩
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