Three-dimensional orientation of single molecules in a tunable optical lambda/2 microresonator

Raphael Gutbrod; Dmitry Khoptyar; Mathias Steiner; Anna M Chizhik; Alexey I Chizhik; Sebastian Bär; Alfred J Meixner

doi:10.1021/nl903318p

Three-dimensional orientation of single molecules in a tunable optical lambda/2 microresonator

Nano Lett. 2010 Feb 10;10(2):504-8. doi: 10.1021/nl903318p.

Authors

Raphael Gutbrod¹, Dmitry Khoptyar, Mathias Steiner, Anna M Chizhik, Alexey I Chizhik, Sebastian Bär, Alfred J Meixner

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.

PMID: 20063862
DOI: 10.1021/nl903318p

Abstract

A tightly focused radially polarized laser beam forms an unusual bimodal field distribution in an optical lambda/2-microresonator. We use a single-molecule dipole to probe the vector properties of this field distribution by tuning the resonator length with nanometer precision. Comparing calculated and experimental excitation patterns provides the three-dimensional orientation of the single-molecule dipole in the microresonator.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Equipment Design
Light
Materials Testing
Nanostructures / chemistry
Nanotechnology / methods*
Optics and Photonics*
Silicon Dioxide / chemistry
Spectrometry, Fluorescence / methods

Substances

Silicon Dioxide