Simultaneous magnetic and electric Purcell enhancement in a hybrid metal-dielectric nanostructure

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a hybrid metal-dielectric nanostructure that achieves simultaneous high Purcell enhancement for both magnetic and electric emissions, promising advancements in integrated photonics and light sources.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid nanostructure supporting concurrent magnetic and electric Purcell enhancements with high efficiency and fabrication tolerance.

Findings

60-fold magnetic Purcell enhancement

45-fold electric Purcell enhancement

>95% radiation transmitted to far field

Abstract

Hybrid metal-dielectric structures, which combine the advantages of both metal and dielectric materials, support high-confined but low-loss magnetic and electric resonances under deliberate arrangements. However, their potential for enhancing magnetic emission has not been explored. Here, we study the simultaneous magnetic and electric Purcell enhancement supported by a hybrid structure consisting of a dielectric nanoring and a silver nanorod Such a structure enables low Ohmic loss and highly-confined field under the mode hybridization of magnetic resonances on nanoring and electric resonances on nanorod in the optical communication band. So, the 60-fold magnetic Purcell enhancement and 45-fold electric Purcell enhancement can be achieved simultaneously with $>95\%$ of the radiation transmitted to far field. The position of emitter has a several-ten-nanometer tolerance for sufficiently large Purcell enhancement, which brings convenience to experimental fabrications. Moreover, an array formed by this hybrid nanostructure can further enhance the magnetic Purcell factors. The findings provide a possibility to selectively excite the magnetic and electric emission in integrated photon circuits. It may also facilitate brighter magnetic emission sources and light-emitting metasurfaces in a simpler arrangement.