Plasmonic Hologram Based on Metallic Nanowire Gratings

Author

Xin Sheng ; Jie Cui ; Jun Zheng ; Zhi-Cheng Ye

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

27

Issue

8

fYear

2015

fDate

April15, 15 2015

Firstpage

813

Lastpage

816

Abstract

In this letter, we present a colorful plasmonic hologram which is polarization sensitive-the diffraction efficiency of transverse magnetic light is more enhanced than that of the transverse electric light. The character is caused by longitudinal plasmonic waveguiding effects in the periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguides. These patterns in the hologram even lead to the merits of wide incident angle and working bands. This letter affords a new approach to fabricate highly efficient and polarization-dependent hologram, which is potentially applicable to stronger anticounterfeiting and compatible with liquid crystal for dynamic 3-D displays.

Keywords

MIM devices; diffraction gratings; electro-optical effects; holography; liquid crystals; magneto-optical effects; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical materials; optical waveguides; plasmonics; three-dimensional displays; anticounterfeiting; colorful plasmonic hologram; diffraction efficiency; dynamic 3-D displays; incident angle; liquid crystal; longitudinal plasmonic waveguiding effects; metallic nanowire gratings; periodic metal-insulator-metal waveguides; polarization sensitive; polarization-dependent hologram; transverse electric light; transverse magnetic light; working bands; Aluminum; Diffraction; Gratings; Image reconstruction; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Surface waves; Holography; Optical Polarization; Surface Plasmon; Waveguide Modes; optical polarization; surface plasmon; waveguide modes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2015.2390776

Filename

7006681