亚波长金属块阵列中太赫兹波的传输特性研究

利用太赫兹时域光谱技术,研究了亚波长金属块阵列的太赫兹透射光谱特性及金属阵列结构的周期、金属块尺寸等因素对太赫兹透射特性的影响.结合时域有限差分方法,对实验结果进行了数值模拟,并分析了影响太赫兹透射的因素.结果表明:亚波长金属块阵列结构中,THz波的透射极小的位置由金属块的尺寸和周期决定,其透射谷的半高宽随其周期的增大而减小;透射峰值的位置由阵列的周期结构决定,其频率随周期的增加而减小;亚波长金属块结构的透射极小来源于金属块表面局域化电场等离子体的本征频率反射,该局域化电场与金属块结构密切相关,通过改变金属块结构,可以改变其表面电场分布与局域化.研究结果为研制太赫兹波段带阻滤波器提供了有益的参考.     

太赫兹波在亚波长随机金属Al颗粒中的相干传播

本文报道亚波长特征尺寸的随机金属颗粒体系由于表面等离子体效应,在太赫兹（THz）电磁波段出现的异常透射现象.通过THz时域光谱实验测量,发现THz波的透射强度不仅随着金属颗粒体系的厚度减小,而且当颗粒体系的横向尺寸大于THz光斑时,透射强度会随着体系横向尺寸的增大而减小,并伴随着透射时间的延迟.同时发现,入射THz电磁场在导电粒子体系中激发的表面等离子波主要沿着体系的边界传播.关键词：太赫兹电磁波金属颗粒表面等离子体     

基于锑化铟亚波长阵列结构的太赫兹聚焦器件

基于锑化铟材料在太赫兹波段的横向磁光效应,提出了一种金属-空气-锑化铟-金属非对称周期性亚波长线栅阵列结构的表面等离子体器件,研究了外加磁场和温度对不同频率透射波聚焦特性的影响.结果表明,在外加磁场强度B=0.6 T、温度T=172 K时,可实现0.8 THz透射光束的聚焦,焦点处能流密度透过率比没有外加磁场时增强28倍.对于不同频率入射波,通过主动调节磁场强度和温度,能实现从0.4—0.8 THz宽频带的聚焦,而且焦点处的透过率相比于无外加磁场时的普通狭缝聚焦透过率增强20倍以上,该器件是太赫兹波段理想的可调谐、宽频段、高透过率的聚焦器件.     

太赫兹亚波长人工结构传感应用

近年来,太赫兹科学技术在快速发展,它在毒品、爆炸物、有毒危险品等安全检查及反恐怖方面展现出独特的应用前景。常用的自由空间太赫兹时域光谱技术,尽管具有很多优越性和良好的应用前景,但影响其性能提高和进一步推广应用的一些实际问题仍然存在,如对光斑尺寸和样品体积、质量要求等。近年来,随着亚波长人工结构(包括超材料和表面等离子激元器件)的出现,为该问题的解决提供了新的契机。文章综述了作者在太赫兹亚波长人工结构器件传感应用所开展的一系列研究工作,其中包括薄膜材料传感、不同标号汽油传感以及同位素传感等,显著地提高了被测物质的探测灵敏度,同时降低了对被测物质的体积、质量要求,实现了高灵敏、微量物质传感,为太赫兹安全检查及反恐怖应用提供了技术借鉴。此外,文章还介绍了太赫兹亚波长人工结构传感器件未来的发展前景和面临的挑战。     

太赫兹波在非磁化等离子体中的传输特性研究

本文对太赫兹波在非磁化等离子体中的传输特性进行了理论和实验研究,得到了非磁化等离子体中太赫兹波传输特性随太赫兹波频率、等离子体密度、碰撞频率和厚度的变化规律．发现了一些新的现象：随着太赫兹波频率增加,反射率曲线出现周期性振荡,振荡周期为0．03THz．随着太赫兹波频率增加,振荡幅度增加：随着等离子体密度增加,振荡幅度减小;随着等离子体碰撞频率增加,振荡幅度增加．反射率曲线出现振荡的原因是电磁波在z=0和z=-d界面处的多次反射所致．以激波管为实验平台进行了0．22THz太赫兹波在等离子体中传输特性的实验研究,实验结果和理论结果符合较好．理论和实验结果均表明,采用太赫兹来实现地面与飞行器之间的通信互联是解决黑障问题的可选途径之一．     

太赫兹波在磁化等离子体中传输特性

建立了电磁波穿过磁化等离子体鞘套的一维模型,并采用数值分析方法对太赫兹（THz）电磁波在磁化等离子体鞘套中传播时的反射率、透射率和衰减值进行了计算仿真,分析了磁化条件下磁场强度、太赫兹波频率、等离子体鞘套厚度、等离子体碰撞频率和等离子体密度对太赫兹波在磁化等离子体鞘套中传播特性的影响。仿真结果表明:排除衰减波峰对应的频率范围,外加磁场有效降低了太赫兹波传输的衰减,在固定磁场强度下,衰减波峰两侧的衰减值均达到了5 dB以下,有效地解决了通信黑障问题。     

太赫兹波在磁化等离子体中传输特性

建立了电磁波穿过磁化等离子体鞘套的一维模型,并采用数值分析方法对太赫兹（THz）电磁波在磁化等离子体鞘套中传播时的反射率、透射率和衰减值进行了计算仿真,分析了磁化条件下磁场强度、太赫兹波频率、等离子体鞘套厚度、等离子体碰撞频率和等离子体密度对太赫兹波在磁化等离子体鞘套中传播特性的影响。仿真结果表明：排除衰减波峰对应的频率范围,外加磁场有效降低了太赫兹波传输的衰减,在固定磁场强度下,衰减波峰两侧的衰减值均达到了5 dB以下,有效地解决了通信黑障问题。     

亚波长孔阵列的太赫兹波异常透射研究

利用太赫兹时域光谱（THz-TDS）系统,在5—300 K温区下测量了在厚度约200 nm的金属Nb薄膜刻蚀的亚波长圆孔阵列的异常THz波透射情况.实验结果表明,在03—2 THz波段,具有亚波长孔阵结构的金属Nb薄膜的异常透射现象波谱的峰位置与CST（computer simulation technology）软件仿真模拟的结果一致,峰值随温度降低有逐渐增强的趋势.关键词：亚波长孔阵列THz时域光谱技术异常透射     

亚波长分形结构太赫兹透射增强的机理研究

利用太赫兹时域光谱(terahertz time domain spectroscopy,简称THz-TDS),研究了亚波长金属分形结构在THz波段的透射增强特性.分别从实验和理论两个方面,研究了铜箔上各级分形结构THz透射增强现象的产生机理.结果表明,在低频区的透射增强主要是由低级分形线中电子运动的共振引起的,而高频区的透射增强则主要由高级分形线中电子运动的共振引起的.从而将这种透射增强效应归结为分形结构中电子的共振辐射,即分形结构的局域共振效应.关键词：分形太赫兹透射共振峰     

亚波长金属光栅的表面等离子体激元共振特性

亚波长金属光栅在共振波长处有光场局域增强、异常透射等现象,为深入认识其共振机制,本文研究了亚波长金属光栅的表面等离子体激元（SPP）共振特性。通过研究不同金属光栅的几何结构以及金属介电常数对SPP共振波长的影响,获得了3种共振波长的基本物理机制。采用周期边界元法进行数值模拟,在边界积分方程的基础上结合平面波展开方法来处理任意形状的周期性结构。模拟结果表明,3种共振波长可以分别由金属的材料、金属光栅周期和金属光栅厚度所调谐。该研究为微纳米光学器件的设计提供了依据。     

Localized surface plasmons-based transmission enhancement of terahertz radiation through metal aperture arrays

The extraordinary transmission spectrum of a copper film pierced by a periodic array of subwavelength rectangular holes is measured by the terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The transmission coefficient is strongly dependent on the angle between the polarization of terahertz electric field and the latitudinal direction of the periodic apertures. When the angle increases from 0^o to 90^o, a peak becomes stronger and another peak reduces. The transmission is proposed to be the contributions of localized surface plasmons inside the apertures. The finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulation results are in good agreement with experimental observations.     

Simulation investigation on waveguide properties of terahertz wave through subwavelength semiconductor gap

The waveguide propagation properties of terahertz wave through subwavelength semiconductor trench have been simulationally investigated. The effects of gap width, temperature, doping concentration and dielectric filling materials on waveguide property have been given and discussed. The results show that as temperature and doping concentration increases, the skin depth and the propagation constant decreases. In addition, the effective index increases and the propagation length decreases as the dielectric constant of filling materials increases.     

Investigation of the propagation properties of terahertz waves through a semiconductor subwavelength slit

The propagation properties of terahertz (THz) waves through semiconductor conductor-dielectric-conductor (CDC) structure have been investigated. The influence of geometrical parameters, radiation frequencies and temperatures on the propagation properties have been shown and discussed. The contour results demonstrate that as the length of the dielectric filling materials increase, the effective indices of the propagation modes increase. Compared with the results of the metal structure, the effective indices of surface modes through semiconductor InSb slits increase, the propagation length decrease. The effective indices of the surface modes decrease, the propagation lengths increase with the increasing of the carrier concentration. It is expected that the numerical results may be very helpful to have better understand the propagation mechanism of THz waves through semiconductor subwavelength slit.     

Cavity resonant mode in a metal film perforated with two-dimensional triangular lattice hole arrays

The transmission property of metallic films with two-dimensional hole arrays is studied experimentally and numerically. For a triangular lattice subwavelength hole array in a 150 nm thick Ag film, both cavity resonance and planar surface modes are identified as the sources of enhanced optical transmissions. Semi-analytical models are developed for calculating the dispersion relation of the cavity resonant mode. They agree well with the experimental results and full-wave numerical calculations. Strong interaction between the cavity resonant mode and surface modes is also observed.     

Surface plasmon resonance polarizator for biosensing and imaging

A novel polarization-sensitive surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensing/imaging scheme is proposed. The scheme uses a periodical spatial phase modulation of the pumping beam of a mixed polarization in the Kretschmann–Raether geometry and takes advantage of SPR-based polarizing effect to drastically absorb p-polarized component changing the resulting polarization state of the beam. The scheme then uses Fourier Transformation to efficiently treat and filter spatially-modulated polarization-sensitive signals and thus to extract and process selected SPR-based response. This approach offers a much higher accuracy of measurements in SPR-based multi-sensing and remote sensing.     

Surface plasmon tunneling through a touching gold nanocylinder array on a thin gold film

The optical property of a structure composed of a touching gold nanocylinder array on a thin gold film is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. It is discovered that the transmission behavior can be tuned by tuning the geometry of the structure. As the film thickness increases, the transmission mode associated with the localized surface plasmon resonance blue shifts accompanied with a decrease of magnitude and full width at half maximum, and a second transmission appear due to the interaction of the plasmons on the cylinder with their images induced on the film. The localized waveguide resonance diminishes but the second resonance peak is intensified and broadened noticeably with the separation of the cylinder array and film increase. The cylinder radius size influences the localized surface plasmon resonance mode obviously. These results may be helpful for the design of a novel optical device.     

Surface plasmon resonance sensor based on diffraction grating with high sensitivity and high resolution

A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor based on diffraction grating with high sensitivity and high resolution is proposed. The sensitivity of grating coupled SPR sensor based on angular interrogation is enhanced by replacing +1st diffraction order of metallic grating with −1st diffraction order to excite the surface plasmon. To improve the resolution of grating-based SPR sensor, aluminum is used as an SPR-active metal. The reflectivity dip of the Al-based sensor is sharper than an Au-based one, which is the mostly widely used as SPR-active metal. And 3-nm-thick gold film is deposited on the grating surface in order to protect the Al layer from getting oxidized. Numerical simulations show that the sensor not only has high sensitivity and high resolution, but also exhibits good linearity.     

Quantitative model for the change of optical resonance in neural activity detection systems based on surface plasmon resonance

The mechanism of neural activity detection using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon was theoretically explored in this paper. Investigating the mechanism of SPR neural recordings has been difficult due to the complex relationship between different physiological and physical processes such as excitation of a nerve fiber and coherent charge fluctuations on the metal surface. This paper examines how these different processes may be connected by introducing a set of compartmental theoretical models that deal with the molecular scale phenomena; Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation, which was used to describe the ion concentration change under the time varying electrostatic potential, Drude-Lorentz electron model, which was used to describe electron dynamics under the time varying external forces, and a Fresnel's three-layered model, which expresses the reflectivity of the SPR system in terms of the dielectric constants. Each physical theoretical model was numerically analyzed using the finite element method (FEM) formulated for the PB equation and the Green's method formulated for the Drude-Lorentz electron equation. The model predicts that the ionic thermal force originating from the opening of the K⁺ ion channel is fundamental for modifying the dipole moment of the gold's free electron; thus, the reflectivity is changed in the SPR system. The discussion was done also on important attributes of the SPR signal such as biphasic fluctuation and the electrical noise-free characteristics.