Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media.
Disordered photonic materials can diffuse and localize light through random multiple scattering, offering opportunities to study mesoscopic phenomena, control light-matter interactions, and provide new strategies for photonic applications. Light transport in such media is governed by photonic modes characterized by resonances with finite spectral width and spatial extent. Considerable steps have been made recently towards control over the transport using wavefront shaping techniques. The selective engineering of individual modes, however, has been addressed only theoretically. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the possibility to engineer the confinement and the mutual interaction of modes in a two-dimensional disordered photonic structure. The strong light confinement is achieved at the fabrication stage by an optimization of the structure, and an accurate and local tuning of the mode resonance frequencies is achieved via post-fabrication processes. To show the versatility of our technique, we selectively control the detuning between overlapping localized modes and observe both frequency crossing and anti-crossing behaviours, thereby paving the way for the creation of open transmission channels in strongly scattering media.
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [3].
Francesco
F
Riboli
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
Niccolò
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Caselli
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [3].
Silvia
S
Vignolini
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
Francesca
F
Intonti
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2].
Kevin
K
Vynck
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2].
Pierre
P
Barthelemy
Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, CNR, Via C. Romano 42, 00156 Roma, Italy.
Annamaria
A
Gerardino
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Laurent
L
Balet
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lianhe H
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Li
1] Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [2].
Andrea
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Fiore
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
Massimo
M
Gurioli
1] European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy [2] Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
Diederik S
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Wiersma