Grating-assisted enhanced optical transmission through a seamless gold film

Opt Express. 2014 Mar 10;22(5):5416-21. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.005416.

Abstract

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate enhanced optical transmission through a seamless gold film based on the grating-insulator-metal (GIM) architecture. The transmittance of this GIM structure reaches 40% at 930 nm, showing 3.7 dB and 9.1 dB increase compared with a bare gold film and a continuous metal-insulator-metal stack, respectively. The enhanced transmission is polarization-sensitive and robust for oblique incidence. With tunable transmission peaks, such a device exhibits great potential for applications in optical filtering, polarization detecting and further integration in optoelectronics system.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't