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Coherent control of light propagation via nanoparticle arrays

Maxim Sukharev and Tamar Seideman

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We illustrate the possibility of manipulating light in the nanoscale using the combination of plasmonics physics with concepts and tools developed for coherent control of molecular dynamics. Phase and polarization control are applied to guide electromagnetic energy through metal nanoparticle junctions and control its branching ratios at array intersections. Optimal control theory is applied as a design tool, to develop constructs with desired functionality. We suggest also that nanoplasmonics could be used to make spatially localized light sources with predesigned coherence and polarization properties, which could serve to coherently control individual nano-systems.


PACS

42.25.Bs Wave propagation, transmission and absorption

42.25.Kb Coherence

78.67.Bf Nanocrystals and nanoparticles

61.46.Df Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles ("colloidal" quantum dots but not gate-isolated embedded quantum dots)

Subjects

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 11 (14 June 2007)

Received 9 December 2006, in final form 12 February 2007

Published 16 May 2007



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