Realizing near-perfect absorption at visible frequencies

doi:10.1364/OE.17.011039

Realizing near-perfect absorption at visible frequencies

Chenggang Hu, Zeyu Zhao, Xunan Chen, and Xiangang Luo »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 13, pp. 11039-11044 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.011039

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Abstract

Sub-wavelength hole array (SHA) combined with thick metal layer (TML) is shown to have simultaneous suppressed transmission and reflection, resulting near-perfect absorption. Unlike the simultaneous electric and magnetic resonances in electric ring resonator and cut wire [PRL, 100, 207402 (2008)], such behavior results from strong anti-symmetric surface plasmons coupling supported by SHA and TML. The polarization-free characteristic permits to construct an ideal absorber for some practical applications in turbid backgrounds.

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(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: May 12, 2009
Revised Manuscript: June 7, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: June 7, 2009
Published: June 17, 2009

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Chenggang Hu, Zeyu Zhao, Xunan Chen, and Xiangang Luo, "Realizing near-perfect absorption at visible frequencies," Opt. Express 17, 11039-11044 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-13-11039

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Nature

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Nature,

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Opt. Express

Phys. Rev. B

H. Tao, C. M. Bingham, A. C. Strikwerda, D. Pilon, D. Shrekenhamer, N. I. Landy, K. Fan, X. Zhang, J. Padilla, and R. D. Averitt, “Highly-flexible wide angle of incidence terahertz metamaterial absorber: Design, fabrication and characterization,” Phys. Rev. B 78(24), 241103 (2008). [CrossRef]
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J. A. Dionne, L. A. Sweatlock, H. A. Atwater, and A. Polman, “Planar metal plasmon waveguides: frequency dependent dispersion, propagation, localization, and loss beyond the free electron model,” Phys. Rev. B 72(7), 075405 (2005). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

N. I. Landy, S. Sajuyigbe, J. J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and W. J. Padilla, “Perfect metamaterial absorber,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100(20), 207402 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Proc. SPIE

T. Rainsford, S. P. Mickan, and D. Abbott, “T-ray Sensing Applications: Review of Global Developments,” Proc. SPIE 5649, 826 (2005). [CrossRef]

Science

J. B. Pendry, L. Martın-Moreno, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal, “Mimicking Surface Plasmons with Structured Surfaces,” Science 305(5685), 847–848 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Semicond. Sci. Technol.

F. J Federici, B. Schulkin, F Huang, D Gary, R Barat, F. Oliveira, and D Zimdars, “THz imaging and sensing for security applications—explosives, weapons and drugs,” Semicond. Sci. Technol. 20, S266 (2005). [CrossRef]

Other

M. Diem, T. Koschny, and C. M. Soukoulis, “Wide-angle perfect absorber/thermal emitter in the THz regime,” http://arXiv.org/abs/0807. 2479 v1.
W. J. Padilla, M. T. Aronsson, C. Highstrete, and A. J. Mark Lee, T. Averitt and R. D. Averitt, “Novel electrically resonant terahertz meta-materials,” http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0605002 v1 .

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