CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science Tuesday, 11 June

Exhibit Hall 3JOINTJTu4A • POSTER SESSION I: Nanophotonics, Lightwave Communications and Biophotonics Poster Session—ContinuedJTu4A.68Multimode Spectroscopy with Plasmonic Sensors,Farshid Bahrami 1 , Mathieu Maisonneuve 2 ,Michel Meunier 2 , J. Stewart Aitchison 1 , MoMojahedi 1 ; 1 Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto,Canada; 2 Physics, Polytechnique de Montreal,Canada. Two platforms for decoupling surface andbulk effects in plasmonic-based biosensors areproposed. The experimental and theoretical resultsshow that the proposed platforms outperform thesingle interface surface plasmon polariton-basedsensors and biosensors.JTu4A.69Optical absorption enhancement in partiallyaperiodic silicon nanohole structures for photovoltaics,Chenxi Lin 1 , Luis Javier Martinez 1 ,Michelle Povinelli 1 ; 1 University of SouthernCalifornia, USA. We report the fabrication andabsorption measurement of silicon membranespatterned with partially aperiodic nanoholestructures. Measurement results agree well withsimulations and show enhanced absorption inpartially aperiodic structures compared to simpleperiodic arrays.JTu4A.70Coupled-Plasmon Induced Transparency inPlanar Stacked Metal/Insulator Films, HerbertGrotewohl 1 , Miriam Deutsch 1 ; 1 Department ofPhysics, University of Oregon, USA. We present atheoretical study of coherently coupled, stackedplanar metal/insulator films. Our analysis showsthat resonant coupling of plasmon and waveguidemodes results in strongly dispersive, non-monotonicreflectance, suitable for enhanced plasmonicsensing applications.JTu4A.71Widely wavelength tunable thermo-opticbandpass filters based on long-range surfaceplasmon polaritons, JONGWON LEE 1 , MikhailA. Belkin 1 ; 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering,The University of Texas at Austin, USA. We reportthermally-tunable optical bandpass filters based onlong-range surface plasmon polaritons. Over 220nm of bandpass tuning is achieved around 1,550nm by varying the device temperature from 19 to27 degrees Celsius.JTu4A.72Zero-index Metamaterial for Directive Emission,Yuanmu Yang 1 , Parikshit Moitra 1 , ZacharyAnderson 2 , Jason G. Valentine 3 ; 1 InterdisciplinaryMaterials Science Program, Vanderbilt University,USA; 2 School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt,USA; 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering,Vanderbilt University, USA. We present an experimentaldemonstration of an optical metamaterialwith a nearly isotropic low-index response, leadingto angular selectivity of transmission andenhanced directive emission from quantum dotsplaced within the metamaterial.JTu4A.73Omnidirectional Light-Focusing Metalens, YuanmuYang 1 , Jason G. Valentine 2 ; 1 InterdisciplinaryMaterials Science Program, Vanderbilt University,USA; 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering,Vanderbilt University, USA. We propose an opticallens that focuses light from all angles of incidenceto a singular point based on a lossy anisotropicε-near-zero metamaterial. Full-wave numericalsimulations are carried out with realistic materialproperties.JTu4A.74Surface Plasmonic Optical Tweezers Based onStandard Single-Mode Fiber, Lei Zhu 1 , MichaelVasilyev 1 ; 1 Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Wedemonstrate optical trapping by a plasmoniclens fabricated on the tip of a single-mode fiber.Three-dimensional sub-wavelength confinementof one-micrometer-size glass beads is achieved.JTu4A.75Twisting Electromagnetic Fields with SingularTransformation Optics, Yongliang Zhang 1 , Zhen-Sheng Zhao 1 , Xuan-Ming Duan 1 ; 1 Technical Instituteof Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy ofScience, China. We proposed a geometric extensionof transformation optics based on anholonomiccoordinate transformation. Torsion arose fromchange of topology can manipulate the twistingdegree of freedom.JTu4A.76Electric control of reflection in metamaterial- twisted nematics liquid crystal cell structure,Yeon Ui Lee 1 , J. Kim 1 , J. Woo 1 , E. Choi 1 , E. Kim 1 ,J. Wu 1 ; 1 Department of Physics, Ewha WomansUniversity, Republic of Korea. In this study, weexperimentally demonstrate electrically tunablemetamaterial with twisted nematics liquid crystal(TN-LC) operating in near-IR spectral range.JTu4A.77Magneto-optical effects in clusters of superparamagneticiron oxide and plasmonicgold nanoparticles, Ward Brullot 1 , StefaanVandendriessche 1 , Thierry Verbiest 1 ; 1 KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, Belgium. Clusters of iron oxideand gold nanoparticles dispersed in a polymershow Langevin behavior in magnetizationinducedsecond harmonic generation measurements.Contrary to Faraday rotation, the Faradayellipticity spectrum shows a feature near theplasmon wavelength.JTu4A.78Three-dimensional Indefinite MetamaterialNanocavities with Anomalous Scaling Law, JunSuk Rho 1,2 , Xiaodong Yang 1,2 , Jie Yao 1 , XiaoboYin 1,2 , Xiang Zhang 1,2 ; 1 NSF Nanoscale Scienceand Engineering Center, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, USA; 2 Materials Sciences Division,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. Wedemonstrate truly deep sub-wavelength nanoscalemetamaterial optical nanocavities with anomalousscaling laws, by incorporating indefinite metamaterialswith hyperbolic dispersion. Cavities withsizes down to ~ λ/20 and high effective refractiveindex of 17.4 are realized.JTu4A.79Demonstration of Dielectric Optical MagneticMirrors Using Phase-locked Infrared TimedomainSpectroscopy, Sheng Liu 1,2 , Young ChulJun 1,2 , Thomas S. Mahony 1,2 , James Ginn 3 , DanielA. Bender 1 , Joel R. Wendt 1 , Jon F. Ihlefeld 1 , PaulG. Clem 1 , Jeremy B. Wright 1 , Michael B. Sinclair 1 ,Igal Brener 1,2 ; 1 Sandia National Laboratories, USA;2Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, SandiaNational Laboratories, USA; 3 Plasmonics Inc, USA.We directly demonstrate a dielectric optical magneticmirror using phase-locked Mid-infraredtime-domain spectroscopy. This magnetic mirroris formed by micron-sized cubes of telluriumfabricated on a dielectric substrate.JTu4A.80Truncated Lévy sum approach to intensitystatistics in random lasers, Ravitej Uppu 1 , SushilA. Mujumdar 1 ; 1 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,India. We present a novel approach towardsunderstanding intensity statistics in randomlasers by modeling emission dynamics in termsof truncated Lévy sums. Calculated statisticsin our model are in excellent agreement withexperimental results.JTu4A.81Influence of the Metamaterial Geometry onUltra-Strong Light-Matter Interaction, AlexanderBenz 1,2 , Salvatore Campione 3 , Ines Montano 2 ,Sheng Liu 1,2 , John Klem 2 , Michael B. Sinclair 2 ,Filippo Capolino 3 , Igal Brener 1,2 ; 1 Center for IntegratedNanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia NationalLaboratories, USA; 2 Sandia National Laboratories,USA; 3 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,University of California, Irvine, USA. We presenta comprehensive study on the influence of themetamaterial geometry on ultra-strong couplingto intersubband transitions. The spatial overlapof a metamaterial cavity mode and quantum-wellregion shows the strongest effect.JTu4A.82Defect and surface states in complex mesh lattices,Mohammad-Ali Miri 1 , Alois Regensburger 2 ,Martin Wimmer 2 , Ulf Peschel 2 , Demetrios N.Christodoulides 1 ; 1 CREOL, College of Optics andPhotonics, University of Central Florida, USA;2Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics,University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. Westudy defect and surface states in PT-symmetricoptical mesh lattices. Such localized states canemerge in both the real and complex domain andcan exhibit peculiar properties that are otherwiseunattainable in Hermitian systems.JTu4A.83Dispersion control of near-infrared surfaceplasmon polariton using hyperbolic metamaterials,Iltai Kim 1,2 , Salvatore Campione 3 , StephenW. Howell 1 , Ganapathi S. Subramania 1 , Robert K.Grubbs 1 , Igal Brener 1,2 , Hou-Tong Chen 4 , ShanhuiFan 5 , Michael B. Sinclair 1 , Ting S. Luk 1,2 ; 1 SandiaNational Laboratory, USA; 2 The Center for IntegratedNanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories,USA; 3 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,University of California, USA; 4 The Center forIntegrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory, USA; 5 Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory,Stanford University, USA. We demonstrate dispersioncontrol of near-infrared surface plasmonpolariton by tuning the filling fraction of a multilayermetallo-dielectric hyperbolic metamaterial.We show that effective medium approximationaccurately provides the dispersion behavior for astructure with only 2.5 periodsJTu4A.84Observations of collimating bound surfacestates in slow-light photonic crystal superlattices,PIN-CHUN HSIEH 1 , Chung-Jen Chung 2 ,James McMillan 1 , Ming Lu 3 , Nicolae Panoiu 4 ,Chee Wei Wong 1 ; 1 Department of MechanicalEngineering, Columbia University, USA; 2 Centerfor Micor/Nano Science and Technology, NationalCheng Kung University, Taiwan; 3 Center forFunctional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven NationalLaboratory, USA; 4 Department of Electronic andElectrical Engineering, University College London,United Kingdom. We present measurements andmodeling of collimating surface states in slowlightphotonic crystal superlattices consisting ofalternating dispersive and homogeneous media.Superlattice periodicity allows evanescent-waveresonant coupling to surface photon bound states,supporting collimation.JTu4A.85Amorphous photonic structures with observedband gaps in the near infrared, Serdar Kocaman 1 ,James McMillan 1 , PIN-CHUN HSIEH 1 , Mikael C.Rechtsman 2 , Chee Wei Wong 1 ; 1 Columbia University,USA; 2 Technion, Israel. We examine numericallyand experimentally photonic band-gaps inliquid-like two dimensional photonic materials.Subwavelength dielectric rods are randomlyplaced with Monte Carlo simulations, fabricatedon silicon-on-insulator chips, and measured innear infrared wavelengthsJTu4A.86WithdrawnJTu4A.87Ultra-sharp Resonances Based on ConductiveCoupling of Split Ring Resonators, Ibraheem Al-Naib 1 , Carsten Rockstuhl 2 , Falk Lederer 2 , DemetriosN. Christodoulides 3 , Tsuneyuki Ozaki 1 , RobertoMorandotti 1 ; 1 INRS-EMT, Canada; 2 Institute ofCondensed Matter Theory and Solid State Opticsand Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany; 3 The College of Optics &Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA. Wedemonstrate two conductively coupled split ringresonators that together exhibit a new resonance.The resonance quality factor is enhanced by morethan one order of magnitude when compared tothat of individual split rings.JTu4A.88Long-Distance Ultraviolet Scattering ChannelMeasurements: Analog vs. Digital Approaches,Gang Chen 1 , Robert Drost 2 , Brian Sadler 2 , LinchaoLiao 1 ; 1 Department of Electrical Engineering,University of California, Riverside, USA; 2 ArmyResearch Laboratory, USA. We compare an analogand a digital method for characterizing the longdistancenon-line-of-sight ultraviolet scatteringchannel. Experimental results and theoreticalmodelpredictions are presented that providedemonstration and validation.Tuesday, 11 JuneConcurrent sessions are grouped across four pages. Please review all four pages for complete session information.1312013CLEO Tuesday.indd 405/17/13 3:11 PM