Described embodiments include a plasmonic apparatus and method. The plasmonic apparatus includes a substrate having a first negative-permittivity layer comprising a first plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic nanoparticle having a base with a second negative-permittivity layer comprising a second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a dielectric-filled gap between the first plasmonic surface and the second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic cavity created by an assembly of the first plasmonic surface, the second plasmonic surface, and the dielectric-filled gap, and having a spectrally separated first fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ.sub.1 and second fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ.sub.2. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plurality of fluorescent particles located in the dielectric-filled gap. Each fluorescent particle of the plurality of fluorescent particles having an absorption spectrum including the first fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ.sub.1 and an emission spectrum including the second fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ.sub.2.

A light emitting device, a method of fabricating a light emitting device and a method of controlling light emission. The light emitting device includes a plasmonic structure. The plasmonic structure is configured to have a plurality of localized surface plasmon resonances. The light emitting device also includes a broadband light emitting layer having an emission spectrum substantially overlapping wavelengths of the localized surface plasmon resonances. A spacer layer is disposed between the plasmonic structure and the broadband light emitting layer. A color of light emitted by the broadband light emitting layer is tunable by the localized surface plasmon resonances of the plasmonic structure.

A method forms a pattern of metallic nanofeatures that generates by plasmonic resonance a desired image having a distribution of colors. The method includes providing a substrate having a layer of photosensitive material, exposing the layer to a high-resolution periodic pattern of dose distribution, and determining a low-resolution pattern of dose distribution such that the sum of the low-resolution pattern and the high-resolution periodic pattern of dose distribution is suitable for forming the pattern of metallic nanofeatures. The lateral dimensions of the metallic nano-features have a spatial variation across the pattern that corresponds to the distribution of colors in the desired image. The layer of photosensitive material is exposed to the low-resolution pattern of dose distribution. The layer of photosensitive material is developed to produce a pattern of nanostructures in the developed photosensitive material. The pattern of nanostructures is processed so that the pattern of metallic nanofeatures is formed.

The present disclosure relates to a substrate unit of a nanostructure assembly type, an optical image apparatus including the same, and a controlling method thereof, and the substrate unit of the nanostructure assembly type according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a lower substrate; an upper substrate separated from the lower substrate, an observation object being able to be positioned at the upper substrate; and at least one metal nanostructure positioned on the lower substrate, wherein the at least one metal nanostructure is capable of being assembled on the lower substrate or separated from the lower substrate.

Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces that function as power transferring surfaces for which at least a portion of the surface includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. A fractal of such a fractal cell can be of any suitable fractal shape and may have two or more iterations. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission.

The invention provides a lighting device comprising a light source and a light converter, wherein the light source is configured to provide light source light, wherein the light converter comprises a donor luminescent material able to convert at least part of the first light source light into donor light, and a acceptor luminescent material, wherein the donor luminescent material and acceptor luminescent material are configured as donor-acceptor luminescent materials which, upon excitation of the donor luminescent material by the light source light provide acceptor light having an acceptor light spectral distribution different from a donor light spectral distribution of the donor light, wherein the light converter further comprises a periodic plasmonic antenna array configured to enhance generation of said donor light, and wherein the lighting device is configured to provide lighting device light comprising said donor light and said acceptor light.

Material structures, systems and devices are disclosed. The material structures are active materials, which are able to emit UV/visible light under excitation by bias, by light beam or by electron beam. The input unit is a source of voltage/current or a source of light or a source of electron beam. The active unit is a material structure containing one or more layers of the described materials. The system may include a passive unit such as a ring resonator, a waveguide, coupler, grating or else. Additional units such as a control unit, readout unit or else may be also incorporated.

The distinguished characteristic of the present invention is that the UV or visible emission from the described structures cannot happen without the presence of at least one of the following quasi-particles: surface plasmons, surface plasmon polaritons, bulk plasmons and/or bulk plasmon polaritons. These quasi-particles assist the UV and the visible light emission.

Methods and systems for the super-resolution imaging can make visible strongly subwavelength feature sizes (even below 100 nm) in the optical images of biomedical or any nanoscale structures. The main application of the proposed methods and systems is related to label-free imaging where biological or other objects are not stained with fluorescent dye molecules or with fluorophores. This label-free microscopy is more challenging as compared to fluorescent microscopy because of the poor optical contrast of images of objects with subwavelength dimensions. However, these methods and systems are also applicable to fluorescent imaging. Their use is extremely simple, and it is based on application of the microspheres or microcylinders or, alternatively, elastomeric slabs with embedded microspheres or microcylinders to the objects which are deposited on the surfaces covered with thin metallic layers or metallic nanostructures. The mechanism of imaging involved use of the plasmonic near-fields for illuminating the objects and virtual imaging of these objects through microspheres or microcylinders. These methods and systems do not require use of fragile probe tips and slow point-by-point scanning techniques. These methods and systems can be used in conjunction with any types of microscopes including upright, inverted, fluorescence, confocal, phase-contrast, total internal reflection and others. Scanning the samples can be performed using micromanipulation with individual spheres or cylinders or using translation of the slabs. These methods and systems are applicable to dry, wet and totally liquid-immersed samples and structures.

An optical filtering device, in particular for remote gas detection, including a member comprising a tubular passage accommodating a plurality of reflective structures capable of reflecting infrared wavelengths, said structures being elongated along an axis of the tubular passage and arranged around the axis. The reflective structures comprise means of filtering by absorption of bands of different wavelengths located in the infrared spectral band.

A tunable electromagnetic radiation device that includes a wavelength selective structure comprising a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers includes a compound layer comprising a plurality of surface elements, an electrically isolating intermediate layer, and a continuous electrically conductive layer. The compound layer includes at least one metallic layer or metallic-like layer and at least one dielectric layer and is in contact with a first surface of the electrically isolating intermediate layer. The continuous electrically conductive layer is in contact with a second surface of the electrically isolating intermediate layer. The wavelength selective structure has at least one reflective or absorptive resonance band. The tunable electromagnetic radiation device further includes an electrode in electrical contact with at least one of the compound layer, the electrically isolating intermediate layer, and the continuous electrically conductive layer.