Nonlinear Excitation of Ideal Anapoles
Abstract
Optical anapoles have attracted significant interest as a promising platform for enhancing light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. An ideal anapole is a localized excitation of electromagnetic fields that does not produce any far-field radiation. In practice, anapoles are not ideal due to the parasitic scattered fields associated with higher-order multipoles. Here, we use the recently established exact current multipole expansion and the exact anapole condition to design an ideal anapole in which radiation due to the multipole orders up to the electric and magnetic octupoles is either eliminated or strongly suppressed, reducing the total radiated power by orders of magnitude. We also propose and study realistic photonic structures in which such anapoles can be excited by a uniform linearly polarized plane wave through second-harmonic generation that involves the off-diagonal elements of the second-order susceptibility tensor. In this case, the anapole condition is reached off-resonantly by adjusting the polarization angle of the incident field, which allows for the anapoles to be excited over a wide spectral range in scatterers of different sizes. Using this approach, we achieve scattering suppression on the order of 10−4 in photonic structures that are half a wavelength in size. The method offers the possibility to realize localized electromagnetic excitations that are truly isolated from the surroundings.
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BibTeX
@misc{kolkowski2026nonlinear,
title = {{Nonlinear Excitation of Ideal Anapoles}},
author = {Radoslaw Kolkowski and Matti Kaivola and Andriy Shevchenko},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.37894},
eprint = {2609.37894},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37894},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Nonlinear Excitation of Ideal Anapoles
AU - Radoslaw Kolkowski
AU - Matti Kaivola
AU - Andriy Shevchenko
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.37894
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37894
AB - Optical anapoles have attracted significant interest as a promising platform for enhancing light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. An ideal anapole is a localized excitation of electromagnetic fields that does not produce any far-field radiation. In practice, anapoles are not ideal due to the parasitic scattered fields associated with higher-order multipoles. Here, we use the recently established exact current multipole expansion and the exact anapole condition to design an ideal anapole in which radiation due to the multipole orders up to the electric and magnetic octupoles is either eliminated or strongly suppressed, reducing the total radiated power by orders of magnitude. We also propose and study realistic photonic structures in which such anapoles can be excited by a uniform linearly polarized plane wave through second-harmonic generation that involves the off-diagonal elements of the second-order susceptibility tensor. In this case, the anapole condition is reached off-resonantly by adjusting the polarization angle of the incident field, which allows for the anapoles to be excited over a wide spectral range in scatterers of different sizes. Using this approach, we achieve scattering suppression on the order of 10^−4 in photonic structures that are half a wavelength in size. The method offers the possibility to realize localized electromagnetic excitations that are truly isolated from the surroundings.
ER -