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Ruizhao Yao1, Hiroshi Sugimoto2, Tianhua Feng3
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Structure and Fundamental Interactions of Matter, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, 510006 Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Optical magnetic dipole (MD) emission predominantly relies on emitters with significant MD transitions, which, however, rarely exist in nature. Here, we propose a strategy to transform electric dipole (ED) emission to a magnetic one by elegantly coupling an ED emitter to a silicon nanoparticle exhibiting a strong MD resonance. This emission mode transformation enables an artificially ideal magnetic dipole source with an MD purity factor of up to 99%. The far-field emission patterns of such artificial MD sources were experimentally measured, which unambiguously resolved their magnetic-type emission origin. This study opens the path to achieving ideal magnetic dipole emission with nonmagnetic emitters, largely extending the availability of magnetic light emitters conventionally limited by nature. Beyond the fundamental significance in science, we anticipate that this study will also facilitate the development of magnetic optical nanosource and enable potential photonic applications relying on magnetic light emission.
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