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- Title
Magnetic switching of Kerker scattering in spherical microresonators.
- Authors
Zouros, Grigorios P.; Kolezas, Georgios D.; Almpanis, Evangelos; Baskourelos, Konstantinos; Stefański, Tomasz P.; Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L.
- Abstract
Magneto-optical materials have become a key tool in functional nanophotonics, mainly due to their ability to offer active tuning between two different operational states in subwavelength structures. In the long-wavelength limit, such states may be considered as the directional forward- and back-scattering operations, due to the interplay between magnetic and electric dipolar modes, which act as equivalent Huygens sources. In this work, on the basis of full-wave electrodynamic calculations based on a rigorous volume integral equation (VIE) method, we demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining magnetically-tunable directionality inversion in spherical microresonators (THz antennas) coated by magneto-optical materials. In particular, our analysis reveals that when a high-index dielectric is coated with a magneto-optical material, we can switch the back-scattering of the whole particle to forward-scattering simply by turning off/on an external magnetic field bias. The validity of our calculations is confirmed by reproducing the above two-state operation, predicted by the VIE, with full-wave finite-element commercial software. Our results are of interest for the design of state-of-the-art active metasurfaces and metalenses, as well as for functional nanophotonic structures, and scattering and nanoantennas engineering.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC control; MAGNETOOPTICS; INTEGRAL equations; MAGNETIC fields; NANOPHOTONICS; TERAHERTZ technology
- Publication
Nanophotonics (21928606), 2020, Vol 9, Issue 12, p4033
- ISSN
2192-8606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2020-0223