%0 Journal Article %1 kern2015electrically %A Kern, Johannes %A Kullock, René %A Prangsma, Jord %A Emmerling, Monika %A Kamp, Martin %A Hecht, Bert %D 2015 %J Nature Photon %K IV-measurements antenna experiment nano-optics %N 9 %P 582-586 %R 10.1038/nphoton.2015.141 %T Electrically driven optical antennas %V 9 %X Unlike radiowave antennas, so far optical nanoantennas cannot be fed by electrical generators. Instead, they are driven by light or indirectly via excited discrete states in active materials in their vicinity. Here we demonstrate the direct electrical driving of an in-plane optical antenna by the broadband quantum-shot noise of electrons tunnelling across its feed gap. The spectrum of the emitted photons is determined by the antenna geometry and can be tuned via the applied voltage. Moreover, the direction and polarization of the light emission are controlled by the antenna resonance, which also improves the external quantum efficiency by up to two orders of magnitude. The one-material planar design offers facile integration of electrical and optical circuits and thus represents a new paradigm for interfacing electrons and photons at the nanometre scale, for example for on-chip wireless communication and highly configurable electrically driven subwavelength photon sources.

@article{kern2015electrically, abstract = {Unlike radiowave antennas, so far optical nanoantennas cannot be fed by electrical generators. Instead, they are driven by light or indirectly via excited discrete states in active materials in their vicinity. Here we demonstrate the direct electrical driving of an in-plane optical antenna by the broadband quantum-shot noise of electrons tunnelling across its feed gap. The spectrum of the emitted photons is determined by the antenna geometry and can be tuned via the applied voltage. Moreover, the direction and polarization of the light emission are controlled by the antenna resonance, which also improves the external quantum efficiency by up to two orders of magnitude. The one-material planar design offers facile integration of electrical and optical circuits and thus represents a new paradigm for interfacing electrons and photons at the nanometre scale, for example for on-chip wireless communication and highly configurable electrically driven subwavelength photon sources.}, added-at = {2020-02-24T10:23:58.000+0100}, author = {Kern, Johannes and Kullock, René and Prangsma, Jord and Emmerling, Monika and Kamp, Martin and Hecht, Bert}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/257e5555de37d09184634d5fd03d27d12/ep5optics}, copyright = {2015 Nature Publishing Group}, day = 17, doi = {10.1038/nphoton.2015.141}, file = {Kern et al. - 2015 - Electrically driven optical antennas.pdf:C\:\\Users\\scherzad\\Zotero\\storage\\5ZTFNUYZ\\Kern et al. - 2015 - Electrically driven optical antennas.pdf:application/pdf;Snapshot:C\:\\Users\\scherzad\\Zotero\\storage\\FI4EM364\\nphoton.2015.html:text/html}, interhash = {3631bbb0e4efe45b1a9ef84141fe21a5}, intrahash = {57e5555de37d09184634d5fd03d27d12}, issn = {1749-4893}, journal = {Nature Photon}, keywords = {IV-measurements antenna experiment nano-optics}, language = {en}, month = {08}, note = {<i style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04935">&raquo; arxiv:1502.04935</a><br> <b>press:</b><br><a href="https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/wissen/article146060578/Smartphone-fuer-Adleraugen.html">&raquo; Die Welt</a> (in german), <a href="http://www.spektrum.de/news/erste-elektrisch-betriebene-lichtantenne-der-welt/1361113">&raquo; spektrum.de</a> (in german), <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/piuz.201590100/abstract">&raquo; Physik in unserer Zeit</a> (in german)</i>}, number = 9, pages = {582-586}, timestamp = {2020-03-10T12:54:45.000+0100}, title = {Electrically driven optical antennas}, urldate = {2020-02-24}, volume = 9, year = 2015 }