Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, Andrea Alu
Anomalous resonances in properly shaped plasmonic nanostructures can in principle lead to infinite absorption/gain efficiencies over broad bandwidths. By developing a closed-form analytical solution for the fields scattered by conjoined semicircles, we outline the fundamental physics behind these phenomena, associated with broadband adiabatic focusing of surface plasmons at the nanoscale. We are able to justify the apparent paradox of finite absorption/gain in the limit of infinitesimally small material loss/gain, and we explore the potential of these phenomena in nonlinear optics, spasing, energy-harvesting and sensing.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3797
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