Sattari, H.Rashed, A. R.Özbay, EkmelCaglayan, H.2018-04-122018-04-1220171094-4087http://hdl.handle.net/11693/37028In this work, a new plasmonic bulls-eye structure is introduced to efficiently harvest the emitted light from diamond nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers. We show that the presence of a simple metal sub-layer underneath of a conventional bulls-eye antenna, separated by a dielectric layer, results in the spontaneous emission enhancement and increment in out-coupled light intensity. High Purcell factor is accessible in such a structure, which consequently boosts efficiency of the radiated light intensity from the structure. The structure shows considerable enhancement in far-field intensity, about three times higher than that of a one-side corrugated (conventional) optimized structure. In addition, we study for the first time asymmetric structures to steer emitted beams in two-axis. Our results show that spatial off-axial steering over a cone is approachable by introducing optimal asymmetries to grooves and ridges of the structure. The steered light retains a level of intensity even higher than conventional symmetric structures. A high value of directivity of 16 for off-axis steering is reported. © 2017 Optical Society of America.EnglishDielectric materialsAsymmetric structuresDielectric layerDirectional emissionFar-field intensityNitrogen vacanciesOptimized structuresSpontaneous emission enhancementSymmetric structuresPlasmonsArticle10.1364/OE.25.030827