2013/03/03 by Adi Salomon, Salomon, Adi, Yehiam Prior +5
Engineering · Materials Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Optics (physics.optics) #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.0492
openalex publication_date 2013/03/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Localized plasmonic modes of metallic nanoparticles may hybridize like those of atoms forming a molecule. However, the rapid decay of the plasmonic fields outside the metal severely limits the range of these interactions to tens of nanometers. Herein, we demonstrate very strong coupling of nanocavities in metal films, sparked by propagating surface plasmons and evident even at much larger distances of hundreds of nanometers for the properly selected metal/wavelength combination. Such strong coupling drastically changes the symmetry of the charge distribution around the nanocavities making it amenable to probing by the nonlinear optical response of the medium. We show that when strongly coupled, equilateral triangular nanocavities lose their individual three-fold symmetry to adopt the lower symmetry of the coupled system and then respond like a single dipolar entity. A quantitative model is suggested for the transition from individual to strongly coupled nanocavities.