authors equally contributed mcsete@physx.u-szeged.hu Different types of concave plasmonic nanoresonators have been optimized to achieve superradiantly enhanced emission of SiV color centers in diamond. Comparative study has been performed to consider advantages of different N number of SiV color centers, different diamond-silver (bare) and diamond-silver-diamond (coated) core-shell nanoresonator types, as well as of spherical and ellipsoidal geometry. The complete fluorescence enhancement (qualified by P x factor) monitoring and the cQE corrected quantum efficiency weighted P x cQE objective function optimization promotes to design bad-cavities for plasmonic Dicke effect. The switching into a collective Dicke state via optimized nanoresonators results in a radiated power proportional to N 2 , which manifest itself in an enhancement proportional to N both of the excitation and emission rates. Accordingly, enhancement proportional to N 2 of the P x factor and P x cQE has been reached both via four and six SiV color centers arranged in symmetrical square and hexagonal patterns inside all types of inspected nanoresonators. Coated spherical and bare ellipsoidal nanoresonators result in stronger noncooperative fluorescence enhancement, while superradiance is better achieved via bare spherical nanoresonators independently of SiV color centers number, and via coated (bare) ellipsoidal nanoresonators seeded by four (six) SiV color centers. Indistinguishable superradiant state of four color centers and line-width narrowing is achieved via bare nanoresonators. Six color centers seeded bare spherical (ellipsoidal) nanoresonators result in larger fluorescence enhancement and more significantly overridden superradiance thresholds, while having slightly more (less) pronounced badcavity characteristics. Both phenomena are simultaneously optimized in ellipsoidal bare nanoresonators embedding six color centers with a slightly larger detuning.
IntroductionThe superradiance (SR) predicted first by Dicke has been thoroughly studied throughout the last half-century [1,2]. In case of cooperativity N emitters can exhibit N-times shorter radiative decay, accordingly the maximum rate of emission can be proportional to N 2 . Contradicting predictions also appeared in the primary literature regarding that the coherence can be lost within the expected superradiance lifetime caused by spatially varying frequency shift [3]. However, the principles regarding that Dicke effect can be achieved either via systems, which are initially in excited "collective Dicke" state, or via transient amplification of the photon noise, are widely accepted by the scientific community [4,5]. In sub-wavelength emitter arrays the non-uniform distribution of initial phases is the pre-condition of a superradiant burst [6]. The SR phenomenon has been widely inspected in case of various systems, which are either significantly smaller or larger than the wavelength [7]. Among large-scale superradiant systems the slab geometry with halfwavelength-scaled thickness was thoro...