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Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

Riboli, Francesco
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Caselli, Niccolo
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Vignolini, Silvia
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2014
Nature Materials

Disordered photonic materials can diffuse and localize light through random multiple scattering, offering opportunities to study mesoscopic phenomena, control light-matter interactions, and provide new strategies for photonic applications. Light transport in such media is governed by photonic modes characterized by resonances with finite spectral width and spatial extent. Considerable steps have been made recently towards control over the transport using wavefront shaping techniques. The selective engineering of individual modes, however, has been addressed only theoretically. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the possibility to engineer the confinement and the mutual interaction of modes in a two-dimensional disordered photonic structure. The strong light confinement is achieved at the fabrication stage by an optimization of the structure, and an accurate and local tuning of the mode resonance frequencies is achieved via post-fabrication processes. To show the versatility of our technique, we selectively control the detuning between overlapping localized modes and observe both frequency crossing and anti-crossing behaviours, thereby paving the way for the creation of open transmission channels in strongly scattering media.

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DOI
10.1038/Nmat3966
Web of Science ID

WOS:000338482300020

Author(s)
Riboli, Francesco
Caselli, Niccolo
Vignolini, Silvia
Intonti, Francesca
Vynck, Kevin
Barthelemy, Pierre
Gerardino, Annamaria
Balet, Laurent
Li, Lianhe H.
Fiore, Andrea  
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Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Materials
Volume

13

Issue

7

Start page

720

End page

725

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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August 29, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/106362
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