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In recent years, the controlled coupling of single-photon emitters to propagating surface plasmons has been intensely studied, which is fueled by the prospect of a giant photonic nonlinearity on a nanoscaled platform. In this article, we will review the recent progress on coupling single emitters to nanowires towards the construction of a new platform for strong light-matter interaction. The control over such a platform might open new doors for quantum information processing and quantum sensing at the nanoscale and for the study of fundamental physics in the ultrastrong coupling regime.

Adding holes in a periodic arrangement to metallic thin films greatly affects the optical properties of the metal film. The compound structure can exert a large influence on electromagnetic fields that interact with the hole array. Many parameters affect the actual response of the hole arrays to electromagnetic fields, such as the periodicity, the size of the holes and their shape. Here, we will show by calculation that the angular emission and lifetime of emitters, embedded in hole arrays comprised of rectangular holes with varying aspect ratio, depend strongly on the hole aspect ratio. Specifically, changing the aspect ratio of the holes leads to a large variety in far-field emission patterns and a more than 10-fold changes in decay rate of a single emitter placed in the central hole of such an array.

International audience; We demonstrate that the reflecting properties of a single particle nanoantenna can be extremely sensitive to its distance from a quantum emitter at frequencies lower than the plasmon resonance. The phenomenon is shown to arise from rapid phase variations of the emitter field at short distances associated with a phase of the antenna particle polarizability lower than π=4.