Abstract

Optical polarization has attracted considerable research attention by extra detection dimension in angular space, flourishing modern optoelectronic applications. Nonetheless, purposive polarization controlling at nanoscales and even at the single-particle level constitutes a challenge. Plasmonic nanoantenna opens up new perspectives in polarization state modification. Herein, we report angular-dependent upconversion luminescence (UCL) of rare-earth ions doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) in both emission and excitation polarization via constructing angularly anisotropic plasmonic local-field distributions in gold nanorods (Au NRs) antennae with different configurations at a single-particle level. The UCL of UCNP tailored by plasmonic Au NRs nanoantennae is enhanced and exhibits linear polarization. The highest enhancement factor of 138 is obtained in the collinear Au NR-UCNP-Au NR configuration under parallel excitation. Simultaneously, the maximum degree of linear polarization (DOLP) of UCL with factors of 85% and 81% are achieved in the same structure in emission and excitation polarization measurements, respectively. The observed linear polarizations and UCL enhancements are due to varied resonant responses at 660 nm and the anisotropic near-field enhancement in different nanoantennae-load UCNP. The theoretical simulations reveal the periodic changing of near-field enhancement factors of nanoantennae in angular space with the incident light polarization angles and are well-matched with the experimental results.

Details

Title
Angularly anisotropic tunability of upconversion luminescence by tuning plasmonic local-field responses in gold nanorods antennae with different configurations
Author
Pan, Chengda 1 ; Ma, Qiang 1 ; Liu, Shikang 1 ; Xue, Yingxian 1 ; Fang, Zhiyun 1 ; Zhang, Shiyu 1 ; Qin, Mengyao 1 ; E Wu 2 ; Wu, Botao 1 

 State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; Joint Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 
 State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; Joint Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China 
Pages
2349-2359
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
ISSN
21928606
e-ISSN
21928614
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2662340281
Copyright
© 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.