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Dielectric photonics platform provides unique possibilities to control light scattering via utilizing high-index dielectric nanoantennas with peculiar optical signatures. Despite the intensively growing field of all-dielectric nanophotonics, it is still unclear how surrounding media affect scattering properties of a nanoantenna with complex multipole response. Here, we report on light scattering by a silicon cubic nanoparticle embedded in lossless media, supporting optical resonant response. We show that significant changes in the scattering process are governed by the electro-magnetic multipole resonances, which experience spectral red-shift and broadening over the whole visible and near-infrared spectra as the indices of media increase. Most interestingly, the considered nanoantenna exhibits the broadband forward scattering in the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges due to the Kerker-effect in high-index media. The revealed effect of broadband forward scattering is essential for highly demanding applications in which the influence of the media is crucial such as health-care, e.g., sensing, treatment efficiency monitoring, and diagnostics. In addition, the insights from this study are expected to pave the way toward engineering the nanophotonic systems including but not limited to Huygens-metasurfaces in media within a single framework.
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License of this version: | OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement - https://www.osapublishing.org/library/license_v1.cfm |
Publication type: | Article |
Publishing status: | publishedVersion |
Publication date: | 2019 |
Keywords english: | Infrared devices, Light scattering, Nanoantennas, Nanophotonics, Near infrared spectroscopy, Red Shift, Cubic nanoparticles, Optical resonant, Optical signatures, Scattering process, Scattering property, Spectral red shifts, Treatment efficiency, Visible and near infrared, Forward scattering |
DDC: | 530 | Physik |
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