scholarly journals Asymmetric excitation of surface plasmons by dark mode coupling

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. e1501142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueqian Zhang ◽  
Quan Xu ◽  
Quan Li ◽  
Yuehong Xu ◽  
Jianqiang Gu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmons ◽  
Mode Coupling ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Coupling Mechanism ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
Experimental Findings ◽  
Induced Transparency

Control over surface plasmons (SPs) is essential in a variety of cutting-edge applications, such as highly integrated photonic signal processing systems, deep-subwavelength lasing, high-resolution imaging, and ultrasensitive biomedical detection. Recently, asymmetric excitation of SPs has attracted enormous interest. In free space, the analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in metamaterials has been widely investigated to uniquely manipulate the electromagnetic waves. In the near field, we show that the dark mode coupling mechanism of the classical EIT effect enables an exotic and straightforward excitation of SPs in a metasurface system. This leads to not only resonant excitation of asymmetric SPs but also controllable exotic SP focusing by the use of the Huygens-Fresnel principle. Our experimental findings manifest the potential of developing plasmonic metadevices with unique functionalities.

scholarly journals Dual-Tunable Polarization Insensitive Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Metamaterials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renxia Ning ◽  
Zhiqiang Xiao ◽  
Zhenhai Chen ◽  
Wei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Vanadium Dioxide ◽  
Mode Coupling ◽  
Slow Light ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Terahertz Devices ◽  
Induced Transparency

AbstractA multilayer structure of a square ring of graphene with nesting vanadium dioxide (VO2) was investigated in this study. This structure exhibits electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), which stems from a bright mode coupling with a dark mode. The permittivity values of graphene and VO2 can be modulated via chemical potential and temperature, respectively. The EIT effect can be tuned based on the chemical potential of graphene and temperature of VO2, resulting in a dual-tunable EIT effect. Simulation results confirmed that this dual-tunable EIT phenomenon is insensitive to polarization. These results may have potential applications in terahertz devices, such as slow light devices, switching devices, and sensors.

scholarly journals Dynamically Tunable Resonant Strength in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) Analogue by Hybrid Metal-Graphene Metamaterials

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaode Lao ◽  
Yaoyao Liang ◽  
Xianjun Wang ◽  
Haihua Fan ◽  
Faqiang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Networks ◽  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Monolayer Graphene ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Resonance Strength ◽  
Field Coupling ◽  
Terahertz Communications ◽  
Unit Cells ◽  
Induced Transparency

In this paper, a novel method to realize a dynamically tunable analogue of EIT for the resonance strength rather than the resonance frequency is proposed in the terahertz spectrum. The introduced method is composed of a metal EIT-like structure, in which a distinct EIT phenomenon resulting from the near field coupling between bright and dark mode resonators can be obtained, as well as an integrated monolayer graphene ribbon under the dark mode resonator that can continuously adjust the resonance strength of transparency peak by changing the Fermi level of the graphene. Comparing structures that need to be modulated individually for each unit cell of the metamaterials, the proposed modulation mechanism was convenient for achieving synchronous operations for all unit cells. This work demonstrates a new platform of modulating the EIT analogue and paves the way to design terahertz functional devices which meet the needs of optical networks and terahertz communications.

scholarly journals Experimental Demonstration of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Conductively Coupled Flexible Metamaterial with Cheap Aluminum Foil

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Hu ◽  
Tingting Lang ◽  
Weihang Xu ◽  
Jianjun Liu ◽  
Zhi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Surface Current ◽  
Aluminum Foil ◽  
Ring Resonators ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Field Coupling ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Induced Transparency ◽  
Bright Mode

AbstractWe propose a conductively coupled terahertz metallic metamaterial exhibiting analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), in which the bright and dark mode antennae interact via surface currents rather than near-field coupling. Aluminum foil, which is very cheap and often used in food package, is used to fabricate our metamaterials. Thus, our metamaterials are also flexible metamaterials. In our design, aluminum bar resonators and aluminum split ring resonators (SRRs) are connected (rather than separated) in the form of a fork-shaped structure. We conduct a numerical simulation and an experiment to analyze the mechanism of the proposed metamaterial. The surface current due to LSP resonance (bright mode) flows along different paths, and a potential difference is generated at the split gaps of the SRRs. Thus, an LC resonance (dark mode) is induced, and the bright mode is suppressed, resulting in EIT. The EIT-like phenomenon exhibited by the metamaterial is induced by surface conducting currents, which may provide new ideas for the design of EIT metamaterials. Moreover, the process of fabricating microstructures on flexible substrates can provide a reference for producing flexible microstructures in the future.

scholarly journals Analog of multiple electromagnetically induced transparency using double-layered metasurfaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Liu ◽  
Zhixia Xu ◽  
Xiaoxing Yin ◽  
Hongxin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmons ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Field Coupling ◽  
Double Peaks ◽  
Resonant Modes ◽  
Physical Essence ◽  
Induced Transparency ◽  
Mode A

Abstract We reported an analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (A-EIT) featured by double transparent peaks in the spectrum. The A-EIT is realized by double-layered metasurface which consists of spoof localized surface plasmons (S-LSP) and cut-wire (CW)-square rings (SR) hybrid. Electric and magnetic S-LSP are excited as bright and dark modes respectively then couple with resonant modes of CW and SR simultaneously to achieve multiple A-EIT. Two bright modes of the electric S-LSP and SR are excited by external electric field directly that produce a bright-bright mode A-EIT. Moreover, the magnetic S-LSP, which cannot be excited by external field directly, is excited through near field coupling from CW, inducing another bright-dark mode A-EIT. Theoretical analysis with corresponding experiment in microwave band are introduced for better insights into physical essence of the double-peaks A-EIT.

scholarly journals Electromagnetically Induced Transparency-Like Effect by Dark-Dark Mode Coupling

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1350
Author(s):  
Qiao Wang ◽  
Kaili Kuang ◽  
Huixuan Gao ◽  
Shuwen Chu ◽  
Li Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mode Coupling ◽  
Slow Light ◽  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Destructive Interference ◽  
Dark Mode ◽  
Metal Grating ◽  
Layer 4 ◽  
Induced Transparency ◽  
Waveguide Resonance

Electromagnetically induced transparency-like (EIT-like) effect is a promising research area for applications of slow light, sensing and metamaterials. The EIT-like effect is generally formed by the destructive interference of bright-dark mode coupling and bright-bright mode coupling. There are seldom reports about EIT-like effect realized by the coupling of two dark modes. In this paper, we numerically and theoretically demonstrated that the EIT-like effect is achieved through dark-dark mode coupling of two waveguide resonances in a compound nanosystem with metal grating and multilayer structure. If we introduce |1〉, | 2 〉 and | 3 〉 to represent the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) resonance, waveguide resonance in layer 2, and waveguide resonance in layer 4, the destructive interference occurs between two pathways of | 0 〉 → | 1 〉 → | 2 〉 and | 0 〉 → | 1 〉 → | 2 〉 → | 3 〉 → | 2 〉 , where | 0 〉 is the ground state without excitation. Our work will stimulate more studies on EIT-like effect with dark-dark mode coupling in other systems.

Controlling the interference between localized and delocalized surface plasmons via incident polarization for optical switching

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 1850194
Author(s):  
Wen-Bo Song ◽  
Yun Qi ◽  
Xiao-Peng Zhang ◽  
Ming-Li Wan ◽  
Jinna He
Keyword(s):  
Surface Plasmons ◽  
Optical Switching ◽  
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Photonic Devices ◽  
Biochemical Sensors ◽  
Optical Responses ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Induced Transparency ◽  
Incident Polarization

Surface plasmons supported by various metallic nanostructures have given rise to several significant breakthroughs in the field of integrated photonic devices due to its ability to effectively confine and enhance optical field in subwavelength volume. In particular, the demand to actively control optical responses of plasmonic systems becomes urgent for the miniaturization of signal processing devices, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates and biochemical sensors. In this paper, we systematically investigate the plasmon modes as well as their interaction in a layered nanostructure composed of a periodically-arranged radiative nanoring and a metallic ground plane, as well as a thin insulating spacer. A tunable transparent peak on the background of the broadband plasmon resonance emerges in the reflection spectrum as changing the periodicity of nanoparticle array, a plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Owing to the structural symmetry of the rings, we demonstrate a new scheme of controlling the interference between localized and delocalized plasmons by means of incident polarization and believe that the proposed metasurface may find applications in optical switching if the polarization-controlled components are introduced.

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