Tunable broad-band perfect absorber by exciting of multiple plasmon resonances at optical frequency

Opt Express. 2012 Jul 2;20(14):14871-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.014871.

Abstract

A broad-band perfect absorber composing a two-dimensional periodic metal-dielectric-metal sandwiches array on dielectric/metal substrate is designed and numerically investigated. It is shown that the nearly-perfect absorption with a bandwidth of about 50 nm in visible region can be achieved by overlapping of two plasmon resonances: one originating from the coupling of electric dipoles between adjacent unit cells and another arising from magnetic dipole plasmon resonances. A capacitor-inductor circuit description is introduced to explain the dependence of resonance frequencies and band-width on geometrical parameters.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't