The field of optical nanoantennas, a rapidly developing area of optics, is reviewed. The
basic concept of an optical antenna is formulated and major characteristics relevant to this …

Conventional antennas, which are widely employed to transmit radio and TV signals, can be
used at optical frequencies as long as they are shrunk to nanometer-size dimensions …

We study in detail a novel type of optical nanoantennas made of high-permittivity low-loss
dielectric particles. In addition to the electric resonances, the dielectric particles exhibit very …

Dielectric particles supporting both magnetic and electric Mie resonances are shown to be
able to either reflect or collect the light emitted by a single photon source. An analytical …

Plasmonic antennas offer extremely promising strategies to enhance single molecule
fluorescence sensing and breach the limitations set by diffraction. However, the technical …

Mie resonances in dielectric particles can increase the local optical density of states (LDOS)
associated with either electric or magnetic transition rates in nearby quantum emitters …

Hybrid nanostructures, in which a known number of quantum emitters are strongly coupled
to a plasmonic resonator, should feature optical properties at room temperature such as few …

A photon interacts efficiently with an atom when its frequency corresponds exactly to the
energy between two eigenstates. But at the nanoscale, homogeneous and inhomogeneous …

Phased-array metamaterial systems are enabling new classes of refractive and diffractive
optical elements through spatial-phase engineering. In this article, we develop design …

We demonstrate that symmetric or asymmetric gold nanoparticle dimers with substantial
scattering cross sections and plasmon coupling can be produced with a perfectly controlled …