Far field Superfocusing Along with Enhanced

Near Field Emission From Hybrid Spiral

Plasmonic Lens Inscribed with Nano Corrals
Slit Diffractor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Plasmonics and Perovskites Laboratory, Indian Institute
Technology Kanpur, India.

Student : Fitri Oktafiani

Advisor : Prof. Po-Tsung Lee
July 28th, 2020

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Outline
• Introduction
• Design Principle
• Results
• Conclusion

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 Introduction

Hybrid Spiral Plasmonic Lens

• Improvement of the focal point in far field

• Increase the focal point electric field Intensity

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Archimedes spiral plasmonic
lenses (ASPL) Introduction

Circular Plasmonic Lens Nano Corrals Slits (NCS) Circular Grating (CG)
(CPL) 3 𝜇𝑚

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 Design Principle
• Spiral Plasmonic Lens (SPL) Right Handed Circular Polarization (RCP)

𝜃
𝑟 =𝑟 0 − 𝜆𝑠𝑝𝑝
2𝜋

= distance between the spiral slot and the origin O Left Handed Circular Polarization (LCP)
= the starting distance
= the azimuthal angle
= spp wavelength (
= azimuthal
= radial
= z-directional
= extinction coefficient of SPP in air
= 150 nm = zero-order Bessel’s function
𝑟0 = 1.4 = second-order Bessel’s function
𝑂 = 200 nm = spp wave vector

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 Simulation Results
• RCP circular polarization for SPL.

(a) Intensity distributions of SPL in XZ plane under RCP (b) Plot of intensity along x-axis at the surface of the lens.
illumination

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 Simulation Results
• Standalone NCS.
RCP
RCP

𝑘𝑠𝑝𝑝 ( 𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡 − 𝑟 𝑖𝑛 ) = 𝜋
LCP
LCP
=

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 Simulation Results
• RCP for SPL with variant of NCS radius.

Radius Intensity Intensity

Minima Maxima
(um) (um)

R1 0.14 0.23
R2 0.34 0.43
R3 0.52 0.61
R4 0.72 0.81
R5 0.90 0.99

(a,b) Intensity Maxima (c,d) Intensity Minima 8

 Design Principle
• NCS-HSPL

Inner radius of the spiral slit, = 1.6um

Width of the spiral slit, = 200nm
Width of nano corral slit, = 200 nm
Smaller radius of nano corrals slit, = 0.61 um
Larger radius of nano corrals slit, = 0.80 um

𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡
𝑟 𝑖𝑛
𝑤1
𝑤2 𝑟 𝑜

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 Simulation Results
• Intensity Profile of HSPL under RCP Illumination.

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 Simulation Results
• Phase Profile of HSPL under RCP Illumination.

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 Simulation Results
• Intensity Profile of HSPL under LCP Illumination.

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 Simulation Results
• Phase Profile of HSPL under LCP Illumination.

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 Simulation Results
• Intensity distribution on optical axis of HSPL under RCP Illumination.

• Intensity distribution on optical axis of HSPL under LCP Illumination.

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 Simulation Results
• X-polarized for HSPL. NCS CPL

CG SPL Alone

• Y-polarized for HSPL.

NCS CPL

CG SPL Alone

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 Simulation Results
• Electric field’s intensities (x-direction) of a conventional SPL and hybrid lens.

RCP LCP

x-polarized y-polarized

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 Simulation Results
• RCP illumination for NCS at 3 um above the surface of lens.

• RCP illumination for SPL at 3 um above the surface of lens.

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 Conclusion

• NCS structure pulls the near field focal spot generated by the
Archimedes Spiral Lens out to far field.

• The far field light intensity increases two-fold at 3um above the
surface of the lens.

• Total intensity of NCS-HSPL enhances due to cumulative intensity of

NCS and SPL.

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Bessel Function First Kind Circular Polarization

Cylindrical Coordinat

RCP LCP
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 Intensity Maxima

• CPL under RCP

Illumination

Intensity Minima

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 Intensity Maxima

• CG under RCP
Illumination

Intensity Minima

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Thank You
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