Polarization and Transmission Properties of Metamaterial-Based Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Structure

Author

Li, Hengyi ; Luo, Xiangang ; Yan, Lianshan ; Wen, Kunhua ; Guo, Zhen ; Chen, Juan

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Opt. Technol. for Microfabrication, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Chengdu, China

Volume

3

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

400

Lastpage

406

Abstract

Polarization and transmission properties of metamaterial-based 3-D plasmonic structure are investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods. The structure is composed of metallic nanoboxes periodically placed on the SiO₂ substrate. We simulate and compare characteristics of transmission for four different metal materials (i.e., Ag, Au, Al, and Cu) in terms of the functionality of linear to circular polarization transformation. Results indicate that Al-material-based nanostructure with optimized parameters can provide the highest transmission of 39.62% around the wavelength of 550 nm.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; light polarisation; light transmission; metamaterials; SiO₂; finite-difference time-domain methods; metal materials; metallic nanoboxes; metamaterial-based three-dimensional plasmonic structure; polarization properties; polarization transformation; transmission properties; wavelength 550 nm; Arrays; Copper; Electric fields; Polarization; Substrates; Surface plasmon; metamaterial; nanophotonics; polarization; waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2141978

Filename

5749266