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Synthesis of Keratin-based Nanofiber for Biomedical Engineering
Published on: February 7, 2016
Radiated and guided optical waves of a magnetic dipole-nanofiber system
Shaghik Atakaramians1,2, Feng Q Dong3, Tanya M Monro4
1School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia. s.atakaramians@unsw.edu.au.
Abstract:
Nanophotonics-photonic structures with subwavelength features-allow accessing high intensity and localized electromagnetic field and hence is an ideal platform for investigating and exploiting strong lightmatter interaction. In particular, such a strong light-matter interaction requires investigating the interaction of a magnetic dipole with the electromagnetic field- a less-explored topic, which has usually been ignored within the framework of electric dipole approximation. Motivated by recent advances in the emerging field of multipolar nanophotonics, here we develop an analytical model that provides a new insight into analyzing a magnetic dipole and a nanofiber. This method enables us to examine the effect of second term in the multipolar expansion of light-matter interaction, magnetic dipole approximation, with individual guided and radiation modes of the nanofiber. This is a critical key in developing nanophotonic integrated devices based on magnetic nature of light for super-imaging, biosensing, and optical computing.
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