Particle-Surface Interactions in Near Field Optics: Spin-orbit Effects of Light and Optical/Casimir Forces

Project Information

PSINFONI

Grant agreement ID: 714151

DOI 10.3030/714151

Project closed

EC signature date 25 October 2016

Start date 1 March 2017

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 427 361,00

EU contribution € 1 427 361,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

Transverse spinning of unpolarized light

Author(s): J. S. Eismann, L. H. Nicholls, D. J. Roth, M. A. Alonso, P. Banzer, F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, A. V. Zayats, F. Nori, K. Y. Bliokh
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 15/2, 2021, Page(s) 156-161, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-020-00733-3

Dependence of evanescent wave polarization on the losses of guided optical modes

Author(s): Sinuhé Perea-Puente, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 104/8, 2021, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.104.085417

Integrated Janus dipole source for selective coupling to silicon waveguide networks

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi; Cillian P. T. McPolin; Jack J. Kingsley-Smith; Xudong Zhang; Shumin Xiao; Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño; Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Applied Physics Reviews, Issue 19319401, 2022, ISSN 1931-9401
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
DOI: 10.1063/5.0085487

Optical Magnetic Dipole Levitation Using a Plasmonic Surface

Author(s): Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Michela F. Picardi, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 20/10, 2020, Page(s) 7094-7099, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02313

Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere

Author(s): Alex J Vernon, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Fortuno
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 20477538, 2022, Page(s) 258, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00893-7

Strong recoil optical forces on dipoles via high-k plasmons excitation in thin metallic films

Author(s): J. A. Girón-Sedas, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 117/18, 2020, Page(s) 181106, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0023173

Far-field and near-field directionality in acoustic scattering

Author(s): Lei Wei, Francisco J Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 22/8, 2020, Page(s) 083016, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab9fbf

Unidirectional evanescent-wave coupling from circularly polarized electric and magnetic dipoles: An angular spectrum approach

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi, Alejandro Manjavacas, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 95/24, 2017, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.245416

Electric-current-induced unidirectional propagation of surface plasmon-polaritons

Author(s): K. Y. Bliokh, F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, A. Y. Bekshaev, Y. S. Kivshar, F. Nori
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 43/5, 2018, Page(s) 963, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.000963

Lateral Casimir Force on a Rotating Particle near a Planar Surface

Author(s): Alejandro Manjavacas, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. Javier García de Abajo, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 118/13, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.133605

Two-Dimensional Pulse Propagation without Anomalous Dispersion

Author(s): Carl M. Bender, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Sarben Sarkar, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 119/11, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.114301

Janus and Huygens Dipoles: Near-Field Directionality Beyond Spin-Momentum Locking

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 120/11, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.117402

On-Chip Optimal Stokes Nanopolarimetry Based on Spin–Orbit Interaction of Light

Author(s): Alba Espinosa-Soria, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Amadeu Griol, Alejandro Martínez
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 17/5, 2017, Page(s) 3139-3144, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00564

Ultrafast synthesis and switching of light polarization in nonlinear anisotropic metamaterials

Author(s): Luke H. Nicholls, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Mazhar E. Nasir, R. Margoth Córdova-Castro, Nicolas Olivier, Gregory A. Wurtz, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 11/10, 2017, Page(s) 628-633, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-017-0002-6

Angular momenta, helicity, and other properties of dielectric-fiber and metallic-wire modes

Author(s): M. F. Picardi, K. Y. Bliokh, F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. Alpeggiani, F. Nori
Published in: Optica, Issue 5/8, 2018, Page(s) 1016, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.001016

Not every dipole is the same: the hidden patterns of dipolar near fields

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Europhysics News, Issue 49/4, 2018, Page(s) 14-18, ISSN 0531-7479
Publisher: European Physical Society
DOI: 10.1051/epn/2018402

Repulsion of polarized particles from two-dimensional materials

Author(s): Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 97/20, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.205401

Directional scattering from particles under evanescent wave illumination: the role of reactive power

Author(s): Lei Wei, Michela F. Picardi, Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 43/14, 2018, Page(s) 3393, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.003393

Experimental demonstration of linear and spinning Janus dipoles for polarisation- and wavelength-selective near-field coupling

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi, Martin Neugebauer, Jörg S. Eismann, Gerd Leuchs, Peter Banzer, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 8/1, 2019, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0162-x

Designer photonic dynamics by using non-uniform electron temperature distribution for on-demand all-optical switching times

Author(s): Luke H. Nicholls, Tomasz Stefaniuk, Mazhar E. Nasir, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Gregory A. Wurtz, Anatoly V. Zayats
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10840-7

Improving propagation lengths of ultraviolet surface plasmon polaritons on thin aluminium films by ion milling

Author(s): W P Wardley, F J Rodríguez-Fortuño, A V Zayats, W Dickson
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Issue 52/7, 2019, Page(s) 074004, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aaf260

Interferometric Evanescent Wave Excitation of a Nanoantenna for Ultrasensitive Displacement and Phase Metrology

Author(s): Lei Wei, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 121/19, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.193901

Optical forces from near-field directionalities in planar structures

Author(s): Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Michela F. Picardi, Lei Wei, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 99/23, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.235410

Lateral optical force on linearly polarized dipoles near a magneto-optical surface based on polarization conversion

Author(s): J. A. Girón-Sedas, Jack J. Kingsley-Smith, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 100/7, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.100.075419

Near-Field Directionality Beyond the Dipole Approximation: Electric Quadrupole and Higher-Order Multipole Angular Spectra

Author(s): J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano, Alejandro Martínez, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 12/2, 2019, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.12.024065

Momentum-Space Geometric Structure of Helical Evanescent Waves and Its Implications on Near-Field Directionality

Author(s): Lei Wei, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 13/1, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.014008

Amplitude and Phase Control of Guided Modes Excitation from a Single Dipole Source: Engineering Far‐ and Near‐Field Directionality

Author(s): Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats, Francisco J. Rodríguez‐Fortuño
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, Issue 13/12, 2019, Page(s) 1900250, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201900250

Evanescent gravitational waves

Author(s): Sebastian Golat, Eugene A. Lim, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 101/8, 2020, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.101.084046

Optical multipolar torque in structured electromagnetic fields: On helicity gradient torque,quadrupolar torque, and spin of the field gradient

Author(s): Lei Wei, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuno
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 24699950, 2022, Page(s) 125424, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.105.125424