Re­search top­ic: Op­tic­al an­ten­nas

We develop antennas in the nano and micro range with which the light can either be directed in the desired direction or drastically amplified locally.

Per­sons in­volved

Jens Förstner

Office: P1.5.01.1
Phone: +49 5251 60-3013
E-mail: jens.foerstner@uni-paderborn.de

Henna Farheen

Office: P1.5.02.1
Phone: +49 5251 60-3056
E-mail: henna18@campus.uni-paderborn.de

Viktor Myroshnychenko

> Theoretical Electrical Engineering

Member - Research Associate

Office: P1.5.17.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-3014
E-mail: viktor.myroshnychenko@uni-paderborn.de

Andreas Paul Strauch

> Theoretical Electrical Engineering

Member - Research Associate

Office: P1.5.02.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-3815
E-mail: astrauch@campus.uni-paderborn.de

Rel­ev­ant pub­lic­a­tions

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.


Second harmonic generation spectroscopy on hybrid plasmonic/dielectric nanoantennas

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


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.


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).


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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