Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection
We developed planar multilayered photonic-plasmonic structures, which support topologically protected optical states on the interface between metal and dielectric materials, known as optical Tamm states. Coupling of incident light to the Tamm states can result in perfect absorption within one of sev...
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| author | Boriskin, Victor N. Semenov, Alexander Ayzatsky, Mykola I. Machekhin, Yuri P. Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Tong, Jonathan K. Chen, Gang Boriskina, Svetlana V |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Boriskin, Victor N. Semenov, Alexander Ayzatsky, Mykola I. Machekhin, Yuri P. Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Tong, Jonathan K. Chen, Gang Boriskina, Svetlana V |
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| description | We developed planar multilayered photonic-plasmonic structures, which support topologically protected optical states on the interface between metal and dielectric materials, known as optical Tamm states. Coupling of incident light to the Tamm states can result in perfect absorption within one of several narrow frequency bands, which is accompanied by a singular behavior of the phase of electromagnetic field. In the case of near-perfect absorptance, very fast local variation of the phase can still be engineered. In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate how these drastic phase changes can improve sensitivity of optical sensors. A planar Tamm absorber was fabricated and used to demonstrate remote near-singular-phase temperature sensing with an over an order of magnitude improvement in sensor sensitivity and over 2 orders of magnitude improvement in the figure of merit over the standard approach of measuring shifts of resonant features in the reflectance spectra of the same absorber. Our experimentally demonstrated phase-to-amplitude detection sensitivity improvement nearly doubles that of state-of-the-art nanopatterned plasmonic singular-phase detectors, with further improvements possible via more precise fabrication. Tamm perfect absorbers form the basis for robust planar sensing platforms with tunable spectral characteristics, which do not rely on low-throughput nanopatterning techniques. Keywords: bio(chemical) and temperature sensing; geometrical phase; optical impedance; photonic crystals; singular phase detection; surface modes; Tamm plasmons |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1202892022-09-28T12:22:17Z Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection Boriskin, Victor N. Semenov, Alexander Ayzatsky, Mykola I. Machekhin, Yuri P. Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Tong, Jonathan K. Chen, Gang Boriskina, Svetlana V Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Tong, Jonathan K. Chen, Gang Boriskina, Svetlana V We developed planar multilayered photonic-plasmonic structures, which support topologically protected optical states on the interface between metal and dielectric materials, known as optical Tamm states. Coupling of incident light to the Tamm states can result in perfect absorption within one of several narrow frequency bands, which is accompanied by a singular behavior of the phase of electromagnetic field. In the case of near-perfect absorptance, very fast local variation of the phase can still be engineered. In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate how these drastic phase changes can improve sensitivity of optical sensors. A planar Tamm absorber was fabricated and used to demonstrate remote near-singular-phase temperature sensing with an over an order of magnitude improvement in sensor sensitivity and over 2 orders of magnitude improvement in the figure of merit over the standard approach of measuring shifts of resonant features in the reflectance spectra of the same absorber. Our experimentally demonstrated phase-to-amplitude detection sensitivity improvement nearly doubles that of state-of-the-art nanopatterned plasmonic singular-phase detectors, with further improvements possible via more precise fabrication. Tamm perfect absorbers form the basis for robust planar sensing platforms with tunable spectral characteristics, which do not rely on low-throughput nanopatterning techniques. Keywords: bio(chemical) and temperature sensing; geometrical phase; optical impedance; photonic crystals; singular phase detection; surface modes; Tamm plasmons United States. Department of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences (Grant DE-FG02-02ER45977) 2019-02-08T16:24:13Z 2019-02-08T16:24:13Z 2018-03 2017-10 2019-02-08T13:29:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2330-4022 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120289 Tsurimaki, Yoichiro et al. “Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection.” ACS Photonics 5, 3 (January 2018): 929–938 © 2018 American Chemical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7700-9175 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3973-8067 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-8082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.7B01176 ACS Photonics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Chemical Society (ACS) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Boriskin, Victor N. Semenov, Alexander Ayzatsky, Mykola I. Machekhin, Yuri P. Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Tong, Jonathan K. Chen, Gang Boriskina, Svetlana V Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title | Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title_full | Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title_fullStr | Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title_short | Topological Engineering of Interfacial Optical Tamm States for Highly Sensitive Near-Singular-Phase Optical Detection |
| title_sort | topological engineering of interfacial optical tamm states for highly sensitive near singular phase optical detection |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120289 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7700-9175 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3973-8067 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-8082 |
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