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TY - JOUR
T1 - Electron-beam-driven collective-mode metamaterial light source
AU - Adamo, Giorgio
AU - Ou, Jun-Yu
AU - So, J.K.
AU - Jenkins, S.D.
AU - De Angelis, F.
AU - MacDonald, Kevin F.
AU - Di Fabrizio, E.
AU - Ruostekoski, J.
AU - Zheludev, Nikolay I.
PY - 2012/11/20
Y1 - 2012/11/20
N2 - We demonstrate experimentally that the energy from a highly localized free-electron-beam excitation can be converted via a planar plasmonic metamaterial to a low-divergence free-space light beam. This emission, which emanates from a collectively oscillating coupled metamolecule nanoantenna ensemble much larger in size than the initial excitation, is distinctly different from cathodoluminescence and bears some similarity with laser light. It offers a novel, flexible paradigm for the development of scalable, threshold-free light sources.
AB - We demonstrate experimentally that the energy from a highly localized free-electron-beam excitation can be converted via a planar plasmonic metamaterial to a low-divergence free-space light beam. This emission, which emanates from a collectively oscillating coupled metamolecule nanoantenna ensemble much larger in size than the initial excitation, is distinctly different from cathodoluminescence and bears some similarity with laser light. It offers a novel, flexible paradigm for the development of scalable, threshold-free light sources.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.217401
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.217401
M3 - Journal article
VL - 109
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 21
M1 - 217401
ER -