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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
Scattering of core-shell nanowires with the interference of electric and magnetic resonances
Wei Liu1, Andrey E Miroshnichenko, Rupert F Oulton
1Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. wli124@physics.anu.edu.au
Abstract:
We study the scattering of normally incident waves by core-shell nanowires, which support both electric and magnetic resonances. Within such nanowires, for p-polarized incident waves, each electric resonance corresponds to two degenerate scattering channels while the magnetic resonance corresponds to only one channel. Consequently, when the electric dipole (ED) and magnetic dipole (MD) are tuned to overlap spectrally, the magnitude of the ED is twice that of the magnetic one, leading to a pair of angles of vanishing scattering. We further demonstrate that the scattering features of nanowires are polarization dependent, and vanishing scattering angles also can be induced by Fano resonances due to the interference of higher-order electric modes with the broad MD mode.
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