Chiral-selective plasmonic metasurface absorbers operating at visible frequencies

Bin Tang*, Zhongyang Li, Edgar Palacios, Zizhuo Liu, Serkan Butun, Koray Aydin

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Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a chiral-selective plasmonic absorber by utilizing eng -shaped-resonators in the visible frequencies. Our metasurface design enables chiral-selective absorption bands, in which absorption peaks for left-handed circularly polarized and right-handed circularly polarized occur at different resonance wavelengths resulting in significant circular dichroism (CD). Both simulated and measured absorption spectra exhibit maximum absorptions exceeding 80% associated with a CD value of ∼0.5. Such a chiral plasmonic metasurface absorber with high performance could find applications in optical filters, non-linear optics, thermal emitters, and hot-electron collection devices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number7803536
Pages (from-to)295-298
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume29
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2017

Keywords

  • Circularly polarized light
  • circular dichroism
  • metasurface
  • plasmonic absorber
  • visible frequency

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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