Op­tic­al An­ten­nas

We design antennas on the nano- and micro-scale that allow steering the light either to desired directions or to drastically enhance fields locally.

Next topic: Metamaterials

Re­lated pub­lic­a­tions by the TET group

An efficient compact blazed grating antenna for optical phased arrays

H. Farheen, S. Joshi, J.C. Scheytt, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, Journal of Physics: Photonics 6 (2024) 045010.


Increasing the upward radiation efficiency of optical phased arrays using asymmetric silicon horn antennas

H. Farheen, S. Joshi, J.C. Scheytt, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, in: 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), IEEE, 2023.


Tailoring the directive nature of optical waveguide antennas

H. Farheen, L.-Y. Yan, T. Leuteritz, S. Qiao, F. Spreyer, C. Schlickriede, V. Quiring, C. Eigner, C. Silberhorn, T. Zentgraf, S. Linden, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, in: S.M. García-Blanco, P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII, SPIE, 2023, p. 124241E.


Optimized silicon antennas for optical phased arrays

H. Farheen, A. Strauch, J.C. Scheytt, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, in: S.M. García-Blanco, P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII, SPIE, 2023, p. 124241D.


Optimized, Highly Efficient Silicon Antennas for Optical Phased Arrays

H. Farheen, A. Strauch, J.C. Scheytt, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 58 (2023) 101207.


Optimization of optical waveguide antennas for directive emission of light

H. Farheen, T. Leuteritz, S. Linden, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39 (2022) 83.


Broadband optical Ta2O5 antennas for directional emission of light

H. Farheen, L.-Y. Yan, V. Quiring, C. Eigner, T. Zentgraf, S. Linden, J. Förstner, V. Myroshnychenko, Optics Express 30 (2022) 19288.


Dielectric travelling wave antennas for directional light emission

T. Leuteritz, H. Farheen, S. Qiao, F. Spreyer, C. Schlickriede, T. Zentgraf, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, S. Linden, Optics Express 29 (2021).


Directional Emission from Dielectric Leaky-Wave Nanoantennas

M. Peter, A. Hildebrandt, C. Schlickriede, K. Gharib, T. Zentgraf, J. Förstner, S. Linden, Nano Letters 17 (2017) 4178–4183.


Second harmonic generation spectroscopy on hybrid plasmonic/dielectric nanoantennas

H. Linnenbank, Y. Grynko, J. Förstner, S. Linden, Light: Science & Applications 5 (2016) e16013.


Engineering plasmonic and dielectric directional nanoantennas

A. Hildebrandt, M. Reichelt, T. Meier, J. Förstner, in: M. Betz, A.Y. Elezzabi, J.-J. Song, K.-T. Tsen (Eds.), Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XVIII, SPIE, 2014, pp. 89841G-8941G–6.


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