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Surface plasmon polariton based metal-insulator-metal filter including two face to face concentric semi-rings with different radius

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Xia Liu, Jinping Tian, Rongcao Yang Surface plasmon polariton based metal-insulator-metal filter including two face to face concentric semi-rings with different radius (Фильтр поверхностных плазмон-поляритонов на структуре металл–изолятор–металл, состоящий из двух оппозитных полуколец с различными радиусами) [на англ. яз.] // Оптический журнал. 2017. Т. 84. № 9. С. 13–18.

Xia Liu, Jinping Tian, Rongcao Yang Surface plasmon polariton based metal-insulator-metal filter including two face to face concentric semi-rings with different radius (Фильтр поверхностных плазмон-поляритонов на структуре металл–изолятор–металл, состоящий из двух оппозитных полуколец с различными радиусами) [in English] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2017. V. 84. № 9. P. 13–18.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

Xia Liu, Jinping Tian, and Rongcao Yang, "Surface plasmon polariton based metal-insulator-metal filter including two face-to-face concentric semi-rings with different radii," Journal of Optical Technology. 84(9), 588-592 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.84.000588

Abstract:

The propagation characteristics of excited surface plasmon polaritons in a plasmonic filter are studied by controlling the geometric parameters of the waveguide. The proposed filter is composed of two nanoscale metal-insulator-metal type surface plasmon polaritons based bus waveguide connected through two face to face concentric semi-rings with different radius placed at the top and bottom sides. Numerical results show that the wavelengths of the transmission spectra dips have changes of red shift when either the radius of the two semirings or the refractive index of the insulator is increased. This sensitivity is superior to the filter properties, and thus we believe that the proposed waveguide structure has potential application in the nanoscale photonic devices integration.

Keywords:

surface plasmon polaritons, filter, transmission spectra

Acknowledgements:

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61475198) and Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (Grant No. 2011-002).

OCIS codes: 240.6680, 230.0230, 250.3140

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