Generation of Photonic Nanojet Using Gold Film Dielectric Microdisk Structure

• Published in: Materials Vol. 16; no. 8; p. 3146
• Main Authors: Zeng, Xintao, Su, Ning, Zhang, Weiming, Ye, Zhibin, Wu, Pinghui, Liu, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 16.04.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Data storage; Dielectrics; finite difference time domain (FDTD); Gold; gold-film dielectric microdisk; Information storage and retrieval; Nanoparticles; photonic nanojet (PNJ); Photonics; Polaritons; Propagation; Refractivity; Silicon nitride; surface plasmon polariton (SPP); photonic nanojet (PNJ); gold-film dielectric microdisk; surface plasmon polariton (SPP); finite difference time domain (FDTD)
• ISSN: 1996-1944; 1996-1944
• DOI: 10.3390/ma16083146

Due to their narrow beam waist size, high intensity, and long propagation distance, photonic nanojets (PNJs) can be used in various fields such as nanoparticle sensing, optical subwavelength detection, and optical data storage. In this paper, we report a strategy to realize an SPP-PNJ by exciting a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) on a gold-film dielectric microdisk. In detail, an SPP is excited by the grating-coupling method, then it irradiates the dielectric microdisk to form an SPP-PNJ. The characteristics of the SPP-PNJ, including maximum intensity, full width at half maximum (FWHM), and propagation distance, are studied by using finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical solutions. The results demonstrate that the proposed structure can produce a high-quality SPP-PNJ, the maximum quality factor of which is 62.20, and the propagation distance of the SPP-PNJ is 3.08 λ. Furthermore, the properties of the SPP-PNJ can be modified flexibly by changing the thickness and refractive index of the dielectric microdisk.