EP2286413A1 - Device for focusing light with sub-wavelength dimensions and high yield - Google Patents
Device for focusing light with sub-wavelength dimensions and high yieldInfo
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- the field of the invention is that of optical focusing devices with sub-wavelength dimensions.
- sub-wavelength optical focusing device is meant a device which, when illuminated, allows the creation of secondary sources having dimensions much smaller than the wavelength.
- the applications of these types of secondary sources are very numerous and concern as well the fields of nanolithography and optical recording as biology, microscopy, ...
- One of the main techniques used is to illuminate a hole smaller than the wavelength pierced in a metal film. This produces a light spot at the exit of the subwavelength hole. By this means alone, it is difficult to obtain a high intensity and a good directivity. Also, various refinement techniques have been proposed to improve these parameters.
- the first of these techniques is called enhanced emission by excitation of surface plasmons.
- the pithasmons are particular solutions to the Maxwell equations at the interface between certain media, especially metallic media.
- the optical focusing devices according to this technique comprise, as indicated in FIGS. 1 and 2, concentric metal networks 2 centered on the focusing hole 1.
- a macroscopic lens 3 can complete the device.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of the device and FIG. metal networks 2 of the same device. When illuminating this device, surface plasmons are generated. The propagation then the coupling of these plasmons with the modes of the hole then induces an increase in the total flux introduced into the subwavelength opening and makes it possible to improve the energy efficiency of the device.
- the ratio of the light power transmitted through the subwavelength aperture to the total light power with which the device is illuminated is referred to as efficiency.
- efficiency The ratio of the light power transmitted through the subwavelength aperture to the total light power with which the device is illuminated. Examples of such devices can be found in US Patent Application Nos. 6834027, US 6982844, US 7085220, US 7149395, US 7154820, WO 2006/067734 and US 2007/0048628 and in the following publications: Science 297, 820 (2002) - Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 167401 (2003) - Opt. Expr. 12, 3694 (2004) - J.Opt. Soc. Soul; B 23, 419 (2006) - Opt. Expr. 15, 7984 (2007) and Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043902 (2007).
- This technique significantly improves the transmission of optical flux through the aperture.
- this device still has poor performance.
- a good performance must be above 10% and a very good performance beyond 20%.
- the size of the spot obtained remains at least of the order of a few hundred nanometers, which may be insufficient for some applications.
- the second of these techniques is said to contain reinforced by using surface plasmons.
- the purpose of this technique is to allow the generation of an intense and highly localized hot spot.
- the principle is to propagate plasmons along a guide or metal tip 4 called "tap" whose section gradually decreases.
- the field of the plasmons is thus progressively confined to a very small section, a phenomenon which is consequently accompanied by an increase in the intensity of the field.
- Figures 3 and 4 illustrate two possible embodiments of this technique.
- the "tap” consists of a metal-dielectric-metal guide.
- the dielectric portion has a triangular shape providing confinement.
- the "tap” section ranges from 50 nanometers in its widest width to only 1 nanometer in its narrowest width (to the right of Figure 3).
- the metal can be silver and the dielectric of silica.
- the "tap” 4 consists of a nanostructured metal tip.
- the arrow vertical represents the excitation wave and the horizontal arrow the generated plasmonic wave. Examples of such devices are found in US Patents 7106935, US 2006/0274611 and Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 176805 (2006) and Nano Lett. 7, 2784 (2007) and in J. Conway's thesis (UCLA, 2006). In this case, the results of confinement of the field are very conclusive. Thus, it is possible to obtain spot sizes of less than 10 nanometers. This type of device, however, remains difficult to perform experimentally and has a poor performance.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate two possible embodiments of this technique.
- the focalization of the plasmons is obtained by means of variable-pitch gratings positioned at the output of a wavelength sublave hole 1.
- the focusing is obtained by the excitation of plasmons along of a parabolic chain of nanoparticles 6. Examples of this type of device can be found in the following publications: Nature Phys. 3, 301 (2007), Appl; Phys.
- the secondary source point produced by the focusing device according to the invention does not have these disadvantages.
- the principle implemented consists in reinforcing the emission of a focusing device composed of at least one subwavelength aperture which may be, for example, a slot pierced in a metal film, the said opening being overcome an optical cavity that increases the efficiency of the device.
- the subject of the invention is an optical focusing device comprising at least one focusing structure comprising a metal film comprising at least one opening passing through the film and having dimensions of an order of magnitude less than the wavelength of the film.
- the focusing device characterized in that the focusing structure comprises at least one optical cavity, the optical cavity opening on the opening so that, when the structure is illuminated by an optical flux at the wavelength d use of the focusing device, a large part of this flux is concentrated on the opening or openings by said cavity.
- the metal film has a single opening through the film.
- the optical cavity is centered on the opening.
- the optical cavity may comprise at least one mirror, the mirror consisting of an alternation of layers forming patterns reflecting the plasmons arranged on the film, the layers being alternately made of metal and dielectric material and acting as plasmon reflectors, said plasmons being generated when the focusing structure is illuminated by an optical flux at the wavelength of use of the optical focusing device.
- the pitch of the patterns reflecting the plasmons is substantially equal to half a wavelength of the piasmons.
- the layers are concentric, centered on the opening and arranged on the film.
- the cavity is a hole made in the metal film opening on at least one opening, the diameter of the cavity being one or two orders of magnitude greater than the dimensions of said opening and its depth being less than the thickness of the metal film.
- the cavity is a hole made in the metal film emerging on at least one opening and the structure comprises an alternation of layers forming patterns, arranged on the film, the layers being alternately made of metal and material. dielectric and whose function is to enhance the generation of plasmons.
- the pitch of the patterns enhancing the generation of the plasmons is substantially equal to an integer number of plasmon wavelengths.
- the film may have a single aperture and the cavity may be centered on the aperture.
- the pattern section may be either substantially rectangular in shape or substantially trapezoidal in shape.
- the film is a metal capable of supporting plasmons at the wavelength considered.
- the film is silver or gold for applications in the visible and infra-red and aluminum for ultraviolet applications.
- the dielectric material is transparent at the illumination wavelength.
- the dielectric material for applications in the visible is silica, resin or polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).
- the optical focusing device comprises a substrate on which the focusing structure is arranged, the substrate comprising a layer made of a luminescent material.
- This feature has the advantage of directly using the luminescent material as a source of illumination for the operation of the focusing device
- the invention also relates to the method of producing an optical focusing device according to the characteristics defined above, such that:
- a layer of dielectric material is deposited on a substrate
- the layers constituting the cavity and / or the patterns are lithographically etched in the layer of dielectric material;
- a metal film is deposited, for example, by evaporation or by spraying or "spin-coating" (the “spin-coating” being a technique for obtaining uniform deposits by high speed centrifugation) on the patterns of the layer of dielectric material so as to constitute the cavity and / or the patterns;
- the metal film is pierced in particular by means of an ion beam focused so as to achieve the first opening.
- Figures 1 and 2 show a first embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the prior art
- Figures 3 and 4 show two variants of a second embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the prior art
- Figures 5 and 6 show two variants of a third embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the previous part
- Figures 7 and 8 show a first embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the invention
- Figures 9 and 10 show a second embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the invention.
- FIG. 11 represents a third embodiment of an optical focusing device according to the invention
- FIG. 12 represents a fourth embodiment of a focusing device according to the invention
- FIG. 13 represents the different steps of the method of producing an optical focusing device according to the invention.
- the heart of the device according to the invention consists in creating above at least one subwavelength aperture of the optical focusing device a cavity serving in particular as a power concentrator.
- a cavity serving in particular as a power concentrator.
- the calculation and the optimization of this type of structure can be done by the finite element method, for example by a software of the type "Comsol Electromagnetics”, or by the method of finite differences in time and space, method called "FDTD", meaning "Finite Difference Time Domain” or by another suitable electromagnetic computation software.
- the modeling can be done in two dimensions, the simulation can then be extended to the third dimension by applying a symmetry of revolution or by adding structures in the third axis.
- the various geometrical parameters of the device can be transcribed in the electromagnetic computation software of tye "COMSOL" or "FDTD” or other.
- the optimization method for example transcribed in a scripting language used to define the "Matlab” or “Python” type geometry, may be local based on “simplex". The optimization is mainly done on the four main parameters of the metallic geometry: the step a and the depth of the layers constituting the network when there is one, the width D of the cavity that they form and the thickness e metal film.
- the optical focusing device is made of reflecting mirrors of plasmons 7.
- the device is composed of a subwavelength aperture 1 pierced in a metal film 10 nearby. which plasmon reflectors 7 are placed formed by alternating concentric layers surrounding the opening and forming a network. These layers consist alternately of metal and dielectric material (see on this subject Weber et al., Phys Rev B 70, 235406 (2004) and Nano Lett 7, 1352 (2007)).
- These mirrors create a cavity around the opening and concentrate the luminous flux in the vicinity thereof, leading on the one hand a decrease in the losses of the system and on the other hand an increase in the amount of field capable of coupling in the 'opening.
- the conjugation of the two phenomena then leads to an increase in the output intensity of the device.
- the layers may be arranged either symmetrically as illustrated in FIG. 7 or asymmetrically as illustrated in FIG. 8. In the same way, they may be either centered on the opening as illustrated in FIG. 7, or off-center as illustrated in FIG.
- the device may also comprise either an opening (in the case of FIGS. 7 and 8), or several openings.
- the wavelength of the plasmons is calculated by the following dispersion relationship:
- ⁇ being the wavelength of illumination
- ⁇ d and ⁇ d being the respective permittivities of the dielectric material and the metal film.
- the plasmons generated by the aperture and those reflected by the network are in phase. This condition is fulfilled when the width D of the cavity is substantially equal to either the illumination wavelength or an integer p of half the wavelength ⁇ s P of the interfering plasmons.
- the wavelength of illumination is 532 nanometers
- the substrate bearing the device is optical index glass 1.48
- the dielectric material is a layer of "PMMA", acronym for polymethylmetacryate, optical index 1.49 and 150 nanometers thick
- the metal layer being deposited on said PMMA layer.
- the metal film is a silver film with a complex optical index of 0.05 ⁇ 3.43 at a wavelength of 532 nanometers. Its thickness is close to 50 nanometers.
- the dimensions of the opening are of the order of a few tens of nanometers.
- the aperture may be, for example, a slot 30 nanometers wide perforated in the silver film or a circular aperture.
- the wavelength of plasmons ⁇ sp is of the order of 320 nanometers.
- the reflectors may be metal layers whose pitch is substantially equal to half the wavelength of the plasmons to reflect, being close to 160 nanometers.
- the depth of the patterns of the layers can be close to 75 nanometers. In this case, the optimal width of the cavity is substantially 305 nanometers.
- the optical focusing device has a resonant metal cavity. It consists essentially of a sub-wavelength opening 1 pierced in a metal film 10, the cavity then being a hole 8 made in the metal fiim opening either on a single opening (case of Figure 9), or on several openings (case of Figure 10), the diameter of the cavity being one or two orders of magnitude greater than the dimensions of the openings and its depth being less than the thickness of the metal fiim.
- the efficiency of the previous system is thus increased by replacing the metal / dielectric alternation of the plasmon reflector mirrors by a single metal film. This gives a better reflectivity, which reduces the absorption losses in the mirrors.
- This arrangement then makes it possible to increase the amount of field likely to be cut and to be transmitted through the opening.
- This all-metal cavity indeed supports clean modes (see on this subject the article of Phys Rev. B 75, 035411 (2007)) whose excitation leads to focus the field in it.
- the cavity behaves both as a concentrator and an energy reservoir for transmission through the subwavelength aperture, which has the effect of increasing the intensity of the light spot at the output.
- the width of the cavity must be at least three times greater than the dimensions of the opening and preferably substantially equal to either the illumination wavelength or an integer p of half the wavelength ⁇ sp plasmons that interfere. It is preferable that p is equal to 1 or less than or equal to 5.
- a resonant metal cavity optical focusing device can operate at the illumination wavelength of 532 nanometers, the light being polarized in TM (Magnetic Transverse) mode, the substrate carrying the device being glass covered with a layer of PMMA, the metal layer being deposited on the said PMMA layer.
- the metallic film is a silver film.
- the optimal width of the cavity is substantially 300 nanometers.
- the optical focusing device is a resonant metal cavity 8 reinforced by surface plasmons.
- This device aims to optimize the previous device, the goal being to increase the intensity of the light spot at the output and thus improve the efficiency of the system.
- the first two embodiments consist in confining the field in the vicinity of the opening and in limiting the losses within the structure, this embodiment has the additional objective of introducing a maximum of flux into the cavity. to make the most of the power provided by the incident illumination.
- the principle consists in adding metal networks 14 at the edge of a cavity 8 as described in FIG. 11 so that their illumination induces the generation of surface plasmons.
- the structure comprises an alternation of layers surrounding the cavity 8 and disposed on the film 10, the layers being made alternately of metal and dielectric material and whose function is to enhance the generation of plasmons.
- the propagation then diffraction of these plasmons at the upper edges of the cavity then allows their coupling with the eigen modes thereof and leads to an increase in the field present in the cavity.
- the width of the cavity must be substantially equal to an integer p of half the wavelength ⁇ sp of the interfering plasmons. Its depth h must be substantially equal to half the wavelength ⁇ sp .
- the network closest to the cavity must be at a distance d from the edges of the cavity equal to an integer q of half of this same wavelength ⁇ sp of the plasmons.
- the period or not between two successive layers of the network is substantially equal to the wavelength of the plasmons to reflect.
- a reinforced resonant metal cavity optical focusing device can operate at the 532 nanometer illumination wavelength, the light being polarized in TM (Magnetic Transverse) mode, the substrate carrying the device being glass covered with a layer of PMMA, the layer metal being deposited on said PMMA layer.
- the metallic film is a silver film.
- the optimal width of the cavity is substantially 300 nanometers, its height 180 nanometers, the diameter of the opening is 30 nanometers and its depth 60 nanometers, the minimum network-cavity distance is 160 nanometers, the step of the network is 320 nanometers, the height of the patterns of the network 15 nanometers.
- the focusing device is made on a substrate of variable thickness, the thickness at the center being greater than the thickness at the periphery of the substrate.
- This substrate can be, for example, convex.
- the layers constituting the patterns reflecting or enhancing the generation of plasmons may have a section that is not necessarily rectangular, for example trapezoidal as illustrated in FIG.
- a transparent substrate for example made of glass, a layer of dielectric, for example an oxide, silica, a resin, polymethylmethylacrylate (PMMA) in which the various layers constituting the cavity and / or the patterns are etched and which constitutes the layer of dielectric material and,
- a layer of dielectric for example an oxide, silica, a resin, polymethylmethylacrylate (PMMA) in which the various layers constituting the cavity and / or the patterns are etched and which constitutes the layer of dielectric material and,
- PMMA polymethylmethylacrylate
- a metal or alloy coating which supports plasmas at the wavelength of use the coating being disposed on said layer of dielectric material.
- a metal capable of supporting plasmons at the wavelength of use is necessary.
- silver or gold which are metals capable of supporting the plasmons in the visible and infrared.
- aluminum may be used.
- the dielectric material is transparent at the illumination wavelength.
- the substrate may be made of a luminescent material. Different types of excitation are possible to obtain luminescence, such as photo-luminescence or electroluminescence.
- photoluminescence the material is illuminated at a given wavelength and emits light at another wavelength.
- electroluminescence an electric potential is applied to the luminescent material and the latter emits light.
- the luminescent material is illuminated or when a potential is applied, the luminescent material emits light at the wavelength of use of the focusing device. The light emitted by the luminescent material is directly used as a source of illumination of the focusing device.
- the substrate may comprise a transparent material and at least one layer made of a luminescent material.
- a method for producing optical focusing devices according to the invention is detailed in FIG. 13.
- This method which applies equally to the different types of optical focusing devices according to the invention, essentially comprises the following four steps.
- a layer of dielectric material 11, for example PMMA is deposited on a substrate, for example glass 12;
- a second step B the structures constituting the cavity and / or the patterns are etched by lithography, for example electronically in the layer 11 of dielectric material
- a metal film 10 which may be silver, is deposited, for example by evaporation or by spraying or "spin-coating", on the patterns of the layer 11 of dielectric material so as to constitute the cavity and / or patterns;
- a fourth step D the metal film is pierced, for example, by means of an ion beam focused so as to produce the opening (s) 1.
- An additional step of planarization of the metal film after deposition may be necessary in order to planarize the exit surface.
- the various geometrical parameters of the optical focusing devices according to the invention have the following values, for applications in visible light (wavelength close to 530 nanometers), which corresponds, in the case of silver and PMMA, at a wavelength of plasmons ⁇ sp of the order of 320 nm:
- Diameter of the optical focusing device on the order of one to several microns;
- Width of aperture or subwavelength apertures approximately 30 nanometers
- Depth of aperture or subwavelength apertures approximately 60 nanometers; • Diameter of the metal cavity: of the order of the wavelength or substantially equal to an integer wavelength of plasmons ⁇ sp , namely 310 nanometers;
- Depth of the metal cavity 100 to 200 nanometers
- the pitch is substantially equal to half a wavelength of plasmons ⁇ sp-
- the pitch is substantially equal to an integer number of wavelengths of plasmons ⁇ sp : 320 nanometers;
- the aperture is unique and makes it possible to obtain a single intense light spot of very small dimensions. It is possible to adapt the geometry of the opening, the cavity and the patterns of the gratings to obtain more complex light patterns. By way of example, it is possible to use a slit in the form of an elongated rectangle of very small width, of the order of a few tens of nanometers. It is shown that it is possible to obtain several light spots at the exit of the slot.
- FDTD time-domain finite difference methods
- an oval or racetrack-shaped cavity is better suited than a circular cavity and gives better performance.
- the excitation conditions of the surface plasmons are not limited to the silver film pair and illumination wavelength of 532 nanometers. Depending on the wavelength, different metals may be suitable.
- At the wavelength of 248 nanometers at least the following materials can be used to make the metal film: Beryllium - Aluminum - Silica - Vanadium - Chromium - Iron - Cobalt - Nickei - Copper - Germanium - Niobium - Molybdenum - Rhodium - Palladium - Tin - Antimony - Rhenium - Osmium - Iridium - Platinum
- At the wavelength of 405 nanometers at least the following materials can be used to make the metal film:
- At the wavelength of 532 nanometers at least the following materials can be used to make the metal film:
- the best performing metal is silver.
- the best candidate is aluminum.
- the possible choices for a focusing device to operate in the violet-violet, at the wavelength of 248 nanometers are an aluminum film whose complex optical index is 0.19 + 2.94i and a dielectric transparent to UV as the sapphire index 1.9.
- optical focusing devices when illuminated compact and effective near field optical sources that have multiple applications. These range from nanolithography where these sources can be used to make high-resolution point-to-point lithography in optical storage. In this case, they can be inserted into the high-capacity writing or reading systems, for example in systems including "SIL", an acronym for "Solid Immersion Lenses”.
- SIL Solid Immersion Lenses
- the optical focusing devices can also be applied to the field of optical tongs, where their high efficiency makes it possible to solve the problem of the available energy and to use lower power illumination sources. more easily manipulated.
- These high efficiency devices can also improve the detection efficiency in the fields of photodetection devices by decreasing the associated noise level.
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