Opto-mechanical interactions in split ball resonators (Presentation Recording)

Yue Sun; Sergey V. Suchkov; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

doi:10.1117/12.2190289

5 October 2015 Opto-mechanical interactions in split ball resonators (Presentation Recording)

Yue Sun, Sergey V. Suchkov, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Proceedings Volume 9544, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2015; 95441Z (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190289
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate that a gold split-ball resonator (SBR) in the form of a spherical nanoparticle with a cut supports both optical magnetic and acoustic modes, which have strong field confinement around the cut. Such localization away from the bottom is expected to lead to an immunity to anchor loss and thus potentially high quality factors of acoustic oscillations when positioned on a substrate. As a result, when a planewave pulse excites the optical resonance, it can then efficiently drive the acoustic vibration through laser heating and/or optical forces. We estimate the overall heat variation by modelling the optical energy dissipation inside the SBR due to the dispersive and absorbing nature of gold at optical wavelengths. The optically induced force is given by the time averaged Lorentz force density. We simulate the mechanical vibrations under the optical excitation through time-dependent simulations using solid mechanics module of COMSOL software. Assuming a moderate quality factor of 10, under a plane wave pulsed laser pump which gives 100K temperature change to the SBR, both the laser heating and optical forces lead to the excitation of the acoustic mode at the same frequency with different magnitudes of 200pm and 10pm, resulting 10% and 0.5% modification of the total optical scattering, respectively. These results show that the SBRs support strong opto-mechanical coupling and are promising in applications such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and detection of localised strain.

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Yue Sun, Sergey V. Suchkov, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, and Andrey A. Sukhorukov "Opto-mechanical interactions in split ball resonators (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9544, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2015, 95441Z (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190289

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Acoustics

Laser optics

Laser scattering

Pulsed laser operation

Resonators

Gold

Magnetism

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