Focusing the electromagnetic field to 10<sup>-6</sup>λ for ultra-high enhancement of field-matter interaction.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 34737279.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-26662-5 and PMC identifier 8569218.
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Abstract
Focusing electromagnetic field to enhance the interaction with matter has been promoting researches and applications of nano electronics and photonics. Usually, the evanescent-wave coupling is adopted in various nano structures and materials to confine the electromagnetic field into a subwavelength space. Here, based on the direct coupling with confined electron oscillations in a nanowire, we demonstrate a tight localization of microwave field down to 10<sup>-6</sup>λ. A hybrid nanowire-bowtie antenna is further designed to focus the free-space microwave to this deep-subwavelength space. Detected by the nitrogen vacancy center in diamond, the field intensity and microwave-spin interaction strength are enhanced by 2.0 × 10<sup>8</sup> and 1.4 × 10<sup>4</sup> times, respectively. Such a high concentration of microwave field will further promote integrated quantum information processing, sensing and microwave photonics in a nanoscale system.