Free-standing plasmonic metal-dielectric-metal bandpass filter with high transmission efficiency

Abstract Plasmonic spectrum filtering devices based on metallic nanostructures have attracted wide attention due to their good reliability, ease of fabrication, and wideband tunability. However, the presence of thick substrate significantly limits the structure’s longitudinal size for further optoel...

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Autores principales: Yuzhang Liang, Si Zhang, Xun Cao, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/d8078f0d03c64e828ba1f0695ee38bfb
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Sumario:Abstract Plasmonic spectrum filtering devices based on metallic nanostructures have attracted wide attention due to their good reliability, ease of fabrication, and wideband tunability. However, the presence of thick substrate significantly limits the structure’s longitudinal size for further optoelectronic integration and reduces the devices’ performance. Here we propose and demonstrate an ultra-thin plasmonic bandpass filter based on free-standing periodic metal-dielectric-metal stack geometry working in the near-infrared wavelength range. The coupling between free-space electromagnetic waves and spatially confined plasmonic modes in the designed structure is systematically investigated. As demonstrated in the calculation and experiment, the free-standing plasmonic filters have more than 90% transmission efficiency and superior angular tolerance. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical calculations. These artificial nanostructured filtering devices may find potential applications in the extremely compact device architectures.