Highly efficient narrow-band plasmonic waveguide filter based on cascaded slot cavities

A novel plasmonic waveguide filter design based on three cascaded slot cavities is proposed. The cascaded nanocavities support a united resonant （UR） mode. Light is trapped in the middle nanocavity at telecom- muaication wavelenEth （1550 rim） when the UR mode exists. This phenomenon leads to the efficient transmittance and high Q factor of the plasmonic filter. The resonant wavelength and Q factor can be easily modulated by the cavity radii and the waveguide width.