Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Graduate Program in Applied Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Nat Nanotechnol. 2023 May;18(5):514-520. doi: 10.1038/s41565-023-01320-7. Epub 2023 Feb 13.
Superposing two or more periodic structures to form moiré patterns is emerging as a promising platform to confine and manipulate light. However, moiré-facilitated interactions and phenomena have been constrained to the vicinity of moiré lattices. Here we report on the observation of ultralong-range coupling between photonic lattices in bilayer and multilayer moiré architectures mediated by dark surface lattice resonances in the vertical direction. We show that two-dimensional plasmonic nanoparticle lattices enable twist-angle-controlled directional lasing emission, even when the lattices are spatially separated by distances exceeding three orders of magnitude of lattice periodicity. Our discovery of far-field interlattice coupling opens the possibility of using the out-of-plane dimension for optical manipulation on the nanoscale and microscale.
将两个或多个周期性结构叠加以形成莫尔图案,正成为限制和操控光的一种很有前途的平台。然而,莫尔图案促进的相互作用和现象一直局限于莫尔图案晶格的附近。在这里,我们报告了在双层和多层莫尔结构中,通过垂直方向的暗表面晶格共振,在光子晶格之间观察到超长程耦合。我们表明,二维等离子体纳米粒子晶格能够实现转角控制的定向激光发射,即使在晶格通过超过三个数量级的晶格周期性的空间距离分离的情况下也是如此。我们对远场晶格间耦合的发现为在纳米和微米尺度上进行光学操控开辟了利用面外维度的可能性。