Influencing the angular emission of a single molecule

H. Gersen; M.F. Garcia Parajo; L. Novotny; J.A. Veerman; L. Kuipers; N.F. van Hulst

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5312

Influencing the angular emission of a single molecule

H. Gersen, M.F. Garcia Parajo, L. Novotny, J.A. Veerman, L. Kuipers, N.F. van Hulst

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Abstract

We present the first experimental proof for the influence of a nearby nanosized metal object on the angular photon emission by a single molecule. Using a novel angular sensitive detection scheme, we directly quantify the redirection of angular emission for different molecular dipole orientations as an object is scanned laterally over the molecule at different heights. An excellent agreement between experiments and 2D- numerical simulations is found for molecules oriented perpendicular to the sample, whereas, for parallel orientations, the observed behavior contradicts the calculated behavior.

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	5312-5315
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	85
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5312
Publication status	Published - 2000

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IR-23833

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