Magnetic switching of Kerker scattering in spherical microresonators
Nanophotonics, ISSN: 2192-8614, Vol: 9, Issue: 12, Page: 4033-4041
2020
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Magneto-optical materials have become a key tool in functional nanophotonics, mainly due to their ability to offer active tuning between two different operational states in subwavelength structures. In the long-wavelength limit, such states may be considered as the directional forward- and back-scattering operations, due to the interplay between magnetic and electric dipolar modes, which act as equivalent Huygens sources. In this work, on the basis of full-wave electrodynamic calculations based on a rigorous volume integral equation (VIE) method, we demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining magnetically-tunable directionality inversion in spherical microresonators (THz antennas) coated by magnetooptical materials. In particular, our analysis reveals that when a high-index dielectric is coated with a magnetooptical material, we can switch the back-scattering of the whole particle to forward-scattering simply by turning off/ on an external magnetic field bias. The validity of our calculations is confirmed by reproducing the above two-state operation, predicted by the VIE, with full-wave finite-element commercial software. Our results are of interest for the design of state-of-the-art active metasurfaces and metalenses, as well as for functional nanophotonic structures, and scattering and nanoantennas engineering.
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