Highly efficient mid-infrared metasurface based on metallic rods and plate

Metasurface is a new kind of 2D metamaterial that is able to manage a variety of light beam modulations through steering the phase of the scattering waves. In this work,we utilize the metasurface to manipulate the light beam in the mid-infrared regime. By using the metallic rod and the plate structure,the metasurface presents a high polarization conversion efficiency and a wide working bandwidth. With specially rotated metallic rods,the metasurface can realize various light beam manipulations,such as negative reflection,beam collimation,and focusing.All of these results show that such a metasurface will have potential applications in future mid-infrared optics.     

Fabrication of near infrared metallodielectric photonic crystal using metal-coated dielectric spheres

A metallodielectric photonic crystal with photonic band gaps in near infrared regime has been constructed using layer-by-layer stacking of two-dimensional micro-size metal-coated dielectric spheres array. In transmission spectra two photonic band gaps are observed at 1.38 μm and 2.46 μm, which are in agreement with theoretical calculations. Experimental results show that the photonic band gaps can be realized with about ten layers. The structure with metallic microspheres provides us a novel way for fabrication of near infrared metallic photonic crystals.     

非对称银纳米双环表面等离激元光谱特性

贵金属纳米材料在入射光激发下能够产生表面等离激元,即金属表面自由电子产生集体振荡。当其振荡频率与入射光频率相同时,发生表面等离激元共振,形成一种特殊的电磁场模式和光谱特性。利用该电磁场模式和光谱特性, 能够调节金属纳米材料的光谱学行为,例如通过改变金属纳米结构的大小、形状以及周围介质介电常数等参数, 在微纳尺度上实现光谱学信号的有效调控。目前,除了具有一定对称性的贵金属纳米材料被大量研究和应用外,非对称纳米结构的表面等离激元光谱特性也受到广泛关注。研究表明,在可见-近红外波段光谱范围内设计表面等离激元光电传感器件的关键问题在于,如何有效地调节其消光谱的共振波长、半峰宽以及峰值强度等主要特征参数。提出一种基于银纳米双环组成的非对称结构,利用时域有限差分方法,在可见-近红外波段内,通过分别改变银纳米双环的尺寸、间距及入射光偏振方向等参数,计算了该纳米结构在不同条件下的消光谱。结果表明,在0.4～3 μm的消光谱内,入射光能够激发产生两个独立的表面等离激元共振峰。通过研究峰值波长处的电场分布图发现,上述共振峰分别对应两种不同的电磁场模式。结果还表明,消光谱内两个独立的共振峰可以通过改变该双环结构的不同参数,被分别地进行调节。其中,可以通过改变该双环结构的半径来有效调节短波长峰的共振波长和半峰宽,同时保持长波长峰的共振波长和半峰宽基本不变。此外,通过改变两环间距或入射光偏振方向,可以分别以不同趋势来调节两个共振峰的峰值强度。在提出的非对称银纳米双环的消光谱中,获得了能够被分别调节的两个表面等离激元共振峰,研究结果能够为可见-近红外波段内基于银纳米材料光电传感器件的开发设计提供理论基础。     

Microstubs resonators integrated to bent Y-branch waveguide

We report numerical simulations, based on a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, of light propagation in two-dimensional semiconductor micro-optical waveguides coupled to one or several lateral stubs. It is shown that when the stub is covered with a perfectly metallic thin layer, the transmission spectrum contains several narrow dips. Such simulation of the metallic coating can be used in the far infrared frequency domain, far from the optical regime. We propose a selective filtering device based on the interaction between several stubs. Inserting an appropriate defect stub between a set of periodical stubs leads to a tunnelling transmission, with a narrow peak inside the gap. This filtering phenomenon is used to propose a demultiplexer based on a Y-shaped waveguide for separating signals with different frequencies. Finally, we show that the filtering effect of a stub can also be reproduced when the metal is described in the frame of a Drude model instead of being perfect, which makes plausible the realization of the above devices in the near optical regime.     

Evaluation of light scattering in attenuated total reflection configuration

A theoretical investigation of light scattering in first-order Born approximation in order to analyse the different scattering sources is presented for the case of the so-called Kretschmann attenuated total reflection (ATR) configuration. This three-layer system consists of a high permittivity superstrate acting as a prism, a thin metallic layer and air as substrate. The interesting aspect of this system is the occurrence of a resonance for both the exciting and the scattered light caused by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at the metal-air interface. The scattered light will be calculated under the assumption of different illumination and detection conditions. The scattering contributions are assumed to be caused by the roughness of both interfaces and the volume inhomogeneities in the metallic layer. The calculated curves show the principal possibility of analysing the different scattering sources by an appropriate experimental strategy.     

基于等离激元多重杂化效应的光吸收结构

近年来,以聚合物为代表的高分子材料由于具有比其他光吸收材料(如半导体材料、碳基材料以及贵金属纳米材料)更好的柔性和粘弹性而受到广泛关注.本文基于等离子体再聚合技术和磁控溅射工艺在聚合物材料层上制备了具有等离激元多重杂化效应的光吸收结构,该结构具有宽谱高吸收特性.该结构的制备工艺简单易行,对不同聚合物材料具有通用性,在光学器件领域具有广泛的应用前景.     

Ultrawide-bandwidth slow-light system based on THz plasmonic graded metallic grating structures

We explore a novel mechanism for slowing down THz waves based on metallic grating structures with graded depths, whose dispersion curves and cutoff frequencies are different at different locations. Since the group velocity of spoof surface plasmons at the cutoff frequency is extremely low, THz waves are actually stopped at different positions for different frequencies. The separation between stopped waves can be tuned by changing the grade of the grating depths. This structure offers the advantage of reducing the speed of the light over an ultrawide spectral band, and the ability to operate at various temperatures, but demands a stringent requirement for the temperature stability.     

碳纳米管光学天线的有效波长和谐振特性

将经典金属自由电子气模型应用于金属型碳纳米管, 基于光学天线有效波长理论, 得出了金属型碳纳米管光学天线响应的有效波长与碳纳米管介电特性之间的普适关系. 在对碳纳米管介电特性进行第一性原理计算的基础上, 以金属型4 Å碳纳米管为例, 进一步研究了金属型碳纳米管光学天线响应的有效波长与入射波长之间的关系, 以及金属型碳纳米管光学偶极子天线的谐振特性. 通过将已有传统金属光学天线和碳纳米管天线有效波长的研究结果进行对比, 验证了本文理论的正确性. 结果表明, 碳纳米管光学天线响应的有效波长与入射波长呈近似线性关系, 与传统金属材料构成的同直径光学天线相比, 碳纳米管天线显示出了更强的波长压缩能力, 并且在可见光到红外波段内易于发生谐振. 该研究方法可为碳纳米管光学天线研究提供新的思路.     

Interplay of conductance, force, and structural change in metallic point contacts

The coupling between two atomically sharp nanocontacts provides tunable access to a fundamental underlying interaction: the formation of the bond between two atoms as they are brought into contact. Here we report a detailed experimental and theoretical analysis of the relation between the chemical force and the tunneling current during bond formation in atom-scale metallic junctions and their dependence on distance, junction structure, and material. We found that the short-range force as well as the conductance in two prototypical metal junctions depend exponentially on the distance and that they have essentially the same exponents. In the transition regime between tunneling and point contact, large short-range forces generate structural relaxations which are concomitant with modifications of the surface electronic structure and the collapse of the tunneling barrier.     

A calculation of defect gap states on the clean (110) surfaces of some III-V semiconductors

The gap electronic structure of various defects on the (110) faces of GaSb, GaAs, GaP, InAs and InP is studied. States associated with defects having one or two dangling bonds on either metallic and non-metallic atoms are considered. For interacting defects the barycenter of the states is calculated and their splitting is estimated. It is found that for GaSb, GaAs, GaP and InAs only two clearly distinct groups of levels can be identified. The upper one always corresponds to centers with one dangling bond on a metallic atom, while the lower one contains the levels associated to all the other possibilities we have investigated. For InP, levels associated with two dangling bonds on a metallic atom are raised from the lower group. This is in agreement with the other available theoretical results. A discussion of the experimental data in the light of our results is presented.     

Persistent current in an almost staggered Harper model

In this paper we study the persistent current (PC) of a staggered Harper model, close to the half-filling. The Harper model is different than other one dimensional disordered systems which are always localized, since it is a quasi-periodic system with correlated disorder resulting in the fact that it can be in the metallic regime. Nevertheless, the PC for a wide range of parameters of the Harper model does not show typical metallic behavior, although the system is in the metallic regime. This is a result of the nature of the central band states, which are a hybridization of Gaussian states localized in superlattice points. When the superlattice is not commensurate with the system length, the PC behaves as an insulator. Thus even in the metallic regime a typical finite Harper model may exhibit a PC expected from an insulator.     

Single-pulse drilling study on Au,Al and Ti alloy by using a picosecond laser

Picosecond laser single pulse ablation of Au, Al and Ti alloy (Ti6Al4V) was experimentally investigated with a laser pulse width of 10 ps at a wavelength of 1064 nm for potential industrial micromachining applications. The diameters, depths and morphologies of the drilled craters were studied. Two novel phenomena were found: as hole diameters decreased with fluence, a change of slope of the trend line indicated a change in ablation mechanism for Al and Ti alloy, metallic materials with short electron-phonon coupling times (<10 ps), while Au showed no such transition: an isolated island structure was also observed on Au due to significant melt expulsion. A one-dimensional two-temperature model has been used to discriminate different ablation phenomena. It is shown that metallic materials with different electron–phonon coupling constant have different ablation characteristics in the ps regime. This study could be very helpful for metallic material micromachining with high repetition rate ps lasers pulses which indicates that high throughput may be achieved as well as good machining quality.     

Modal analysis and dispersion curves of a curvilinear triangular cored light guide using Goell's point matching method

This paper gives, in brief the theoretical and computational investigation of a new light guide having a curvilinear triangular core cross-section. This structure is here introduced for the first time and may be conceived as a distortion of a rectangular core cross-section. Using Goell's point matching method under weak guidance approximation, the modal characteristics equations for the lowest order mode have been derived in two cases. In one case, all the sides of the proposed light guide are bounded by dielectric material. In other case we will consider all the sides bounded by conducting materials. From these equations the modal dispersion curves are obtained and compared. It is seen that the dielectric light guide supports more modes than the metallic light guide. Thus, metallic light guide may be used as a mode filter.     

Tailoring the ultrafast dephasing of quasiparticles in metallic photonic crystals

The ultrafast dephasing of waveguide-plasmon polaritons in metallic photonic crystal slabs is investigated in the femtosecond regime by second-order nonlinear autocorrelation. We find a drastic modification of the dephasing rates due to interaction between localized particle plasmons and optical waveguide modes and subsequent modification of the photonic density of states. In the strong coupling regime our measurements give clear evidence for the appearance of ultrafast polaritonic beat phenomena. All experimental results agree well with theoretical simulations based on a coupled damped harmonic oscillator model.     

准周期Fibonacci超晶格的低频纵声学模喇曼光谱

本文报导了准周期 Fibonacci 金属 Nb/cu 和非晶半导体 a-Si:H/a-SiN_x:H(x≈1)超晶格纵向低频声学声子模的喇曼散射研究。在弹性连续模型的基础上,理论模拟表明了这些低频声子光谱是对应于周期超晶格中声学模在约化布里渊区的折叠效应。     

Charge and spin Hall conductivity in metallic graphene

Graphene has an unusual low-energy band structure with four chiral bands and half-quantized and quantized Hall effects that have recently attracted theoretical and experimental attention. We study the Fermi energy and disorder dependence of its spin Hall conductivity sigma(xy)(SH). In the metallic regime we find that vertex corrections enhance the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity and that skew scattering can lead to sigma(xy)(SH) values that exceed the quantized ones expected when the chemical potential is inside the spin-orbit induced energy gap. We predict that large spin Hall conductivities will be observable in graphene even when the spin-orbit gap does not survive disorder.     

亚波长金属聚焦透镜结构参数的优化与分析

提出同时优化亚波长金属透镜结构凹槽宽度和深度,以改善亚波长金属透镜的聚焦特性.基于有限时域差分法,详细研究了凹槽宽度和深度变化对其焦斑的峰值半宽、焦斑强度、归一化聚焦效率以及焦距的影响.通过探讨金属透镜的聚焦规律及其物理机理,给出了金属透镜的优化设计方法,为利用金属透镜实现光波的纳米聚焦及灵活操控提供了理论基础.     

Universal spin-Hall conductance fluctuations in two dimensions

We report a theoretical investigation on spin-Hall conductance fluctuation of disordered four-terminal devices in the presence of Rashba or/and Dresselhaus spin-orbital interactions in two dimensions. As a function of disorder, the spin-Hall conductance GsH shows ballistic, diffusive, and insulating transport regimes. For given spin-orbit interactions, a universal spin-Hall conductance fluctuation (USCF) is found in the diffusive regime. The value of the USCF depends on the spin-orbit coupling tso but is independent of other system parameters. It is also independent of whether Rashba or Dresselhaus or both spin-orbital interactions are present. When tso is comparable to the hopping energy t, the USCF is a universal number approximately 0.18e/4pi. The distribution of GsH crosses over from a Gaussian distribution in the metallic regime to a non-Gaussian distribution in the insulating regime as the disorder strength is increased.     

Enhanced light transmission through cascaded metal films perforated with periodic hole arrays

We report experimental results on enhanced light transmission through two periodically perforated metal films separated by a layer of dielectric. A perforated metal film (single metallic structure) exhibits extraordinary optical transmission, and when two such perforated metal films are spaced by a dielectric layer (cascaded metallic structure), the transmission is further increased. The maximum transmission of the cascaded metallic structure, which depends on the distance between the two metal films, can be more than 400% greater than that of a corresponding single metallic structure. It is proposed that the coupling of surface plasmon polaritons between the two metal films is involved in the process.