TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas
AU - Maksymov, Ivan S.
AU - Staude, Isabelle
AU - Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.
AU - Kivshar, Yuri S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council. The fabrication facilities were supported by the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ACT node). The authors thank A. Davoyan, C. Simovski, A. Krasnok, P. Belov, M. Decker, D. Neshev, H. H. Tan and C. Jagadish for valuable contributions to the work on tapered and all-dielectric nanoantennas. The authors acknowledge many useful discussions with their colleagues from the Nonlinear Physics
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Conventional antennas, which are widely employed to transmit radio and TV signals, can be used at optical frequencies as long as they are shrunk to nanometer-size dimensions. Optical nanoantennas made of metallic or high-permittivity dielectric nanoparticles allow for enhancing and manipulating light on the scale much smaller than wavelength of light. Based on this ability, optical nanoantennas offer unique opportunities regarding key applications such as optical communications, photovoltaics, non-classical light emission, and sensing. From a multitude of suggested nanoantenna concepts the Yagi-Uda nanoantenna, an optical analogue of the well-established radio-frequency Yagi-Uda antenna, stands out by its efficient unidirectional light emission and enhancement. Following a brief introduction to the emerging field of optical nanoantennas, here we review recent theoretical and experimental activities on optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas, including their design, fabrication, and applications. We also discuss several extensions of the conventional Yagi-Uda antenna design for broadband and tunable operation, for applications in nanophotonic circuits and photovoltaic devices.
AB - Conventional antennas, which are widely employed to transmit radio and TV signals, can be used at optical frequencies as long as they are shrunk to nanometer-size dimensions. Optical nanoantennas made of metallic or high-permittivity dielectric nanoparticles allow for enhancing and manipulating light on the scale much smaller than wavelength of light. Based on this ability, optical nanoantennas offer unique opportunities regarding key applications such as optical communications, photovoltaics, non-classical light emission, and sensing. From a multitude of suggested nanoantenna concepts the Yagi-Uda nanoantenna, an optical analogue of the well-established radio-frequency Yagi-Uda antenna, stands out by its efficient unidirectional light emission and enhancement. Following a brief introduction to the emerging field of optical nanoantennas, here we review recent theoretical and experimental activities on optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas, including their design, fabrication, and applications. We also discuss several extensions of the conventional Yagi-Uda antenna design for broadband and tunable operation, for applications in nanophotonic circuits and photovoltaic devices.
KW - All-dielectric nanoantennas
KW - Nanoparticles
KW - Optical nanoantennas
KW - Plasmonics
KW - Purcell factor
KW - Spectral tuning
KW - Yagi-Uda antennas
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U2 - 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0005
DO - 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867189357
SN - 2192-8606
VL - 1
SP - 65
EP - 81
JO - Nanophotonics
JF - Nanophotonics
IS - 1
ER -
