Magnetic Purcell Enhancement by Magnetic Quadrupole Resonance of Dielectric Nanosphere Antenna

• Published in: ACS photonics Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 1794 - 1800
• Main Authors: Sugimoto, Hiroshi, Fujii, Minoru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 16.06.2021
• Subjects: nanoantenna; silicon; nanoparticles; magnetic dipole; europium; Mie resonance
• ISSN: 2330-4022; 2330-4022
• DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00375

Dielectric nanoantennas have been suggested for manipulating the spontaneous emission of a magnetic dipole through the magnetic Purcell effect. However, the experimentally observed enhancement of the magnetic dipole emission has been marginal and much smaller than the theoretical prediction. Here, we develop a composite system, that is, a Si nanosphere decorated with Eu3+ complexes, in which magnetic dipole emission of Eu3+ is efficiently coupled to the magnetic Mie modes of the nanosphere. By means of single particle spectroscopy, we systematically investigate the light scattering and photoluminescence spectra of the coupled system with diameters of Si nanospheres from 130 to 245 nm. We demonstrate that, by tuning the magnetic quadrupole Mie resonance to the 5D0–7F1 magnetic dipole transition of Eu3+, the branching ratio between the magnetic and electric dipole transitions is enhanced up to 7×. We also show the magnetic Purcell enhancement in an ensemble of Si nanospheres with size distribution.