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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Optics Volume 2012, Article ID 452047, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/452047 Research Article Absorption by an Optical Dipole Antenna in a Structured Environment ´ E. Castanie, R. Vincent, R. Pierrat, and R. Carminati Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France Correspondence should be addressed to R. Pierrat, romain.pierrat@espci.fr Received 31 October 2011; Accepted 13 December 2011 Academic Editor: Nicolas Bonod ´ Copyright © 2012 E. Castanie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We compute generalized absorption and extinction cross-sections of an optical dipole nanoantenna in a structured environment. The expressions explicitly show the influence of radiation reaction and the local density of states on the intrinsic absorption properties of the antenna. Engineering the environment could allow to modify the overall absorption as well as the frequency and the linewidth of a resonant antenna. Conversely, a dipole antenna can be used to probe the photonic environment, in a similar way as a quantum emitter. 1. Introduction this question, using a rigorous framework based on scat- tering theory, and to illustrate the conclusions on a simple It is well known that the emission frequency and linewidth example. of a dipole quantum emitter is modified by its local In this paper, we