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Optica, Optics Express, 8(20), p. 8929, 2012

DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.008929

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Actively tunable bistable optical Yagi-Uda nanoantenna

Journal article published in 2012 by Ivan S. Maksymov ORCID, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko ORCID, Yuri S. Kivshar
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We propose and theoretically demonstrate a novel type of optical Yagi-Uda nanoantennas tunable via variation of the free-carrier density of a semiconductor disk placed in a gap of a metallic dipole feeding element. Unlike its narrowband all-metal counterparts, this nanoantenna exhibits a broadband unidirectional emission and demonstrates a bistable response in a preferential direction of the far-field zone, which opens up unique possibilities for ultrafast control of subwavelength light not attainable with dipole or bowtie architectures.