Perfect nonradiating modes in dielectric nanofiber with elliptical cross-section

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the existence of perfect nonradiating modes in elliptical nanofibers, providing dispersion laws and numerical evidence that these modes have extremely low losses and high quality factors, useful for nanosensors.

Contribution

It introduces the existence and characterization of perfect nonradiating modes in elliptical nanofibers, including dispersion laws and excitation conditions.

Findings

Modes have extremely low radiative losses.

Modes can be excited by plane waves of certain parity.

Modes exhibit extremely high quality factors.

Abstract

The existence of an infinite number of perfect nonradiating modes in elliptical nanofibers is demonstrated. Dispersion laws are found for TM and TE perfect modes in circular and elliptical waveguides with an arbitrary eccentricity. Numerical simulations in Comsol Multiphysics have shown that these modes can be excited by plane waves of a certain parity and have extremely low radiative losses and extremely high quality factors. The found modes can be used to create highly sensitive nanosensors and other optical nanodevices where radiation losses should be minimal.