The anapole state excited by an oblique incidence

Abstract Anapole states supported by high-refractive-index dielectric nanoparticles have mostly been studied under normal incidence, but this work explores the oblique incidence excitation. For a single silicon nanodisk, as the incident angle ( θ ) increases, the anapole wavelength undergoes a gradual blueshift, while the wavelength of maximum near-field enhancement remains almost unchanged with increasing E-field enhancement factor (| E/E 0 |) due to phase retardation effect caused by oblique incidence, and some unique features in field distributions differed from normal excitation are exhibited. In the case of a silicon nanodisk array, the anapole state and near-field enhancement are affected by near-field coupling and the phase retardation effect is weakened. With increasing θ , the coupling between the units is enhanced, and the anapole wavelength and maximum field enhancement wavelength both blue shift. The field distributions in anapole wavelength and maximum enhancement wavelength have obvious near-field coupling characteristics. Oblique incident excitation gives us a deeper understanding of anapole state and may have potential applications in nanophotonics.