Observing and controlling a Tamm plasmon at the interface with a metasurface

Nanophotonics - Tập 9 Số 4 - Trang 897-903 - 2020
Oleksandr Buchnev1, Alexandr Belosludtsev2, Victor Reshetnyak3, D. R. Evans4, V.A. Fedotov1
1Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
2Optical Coating Laboratory , Center for Physical Sciences and Technology , Vilnius LT-02300 , Lithuania
3Physics Faculty , Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , Kyiv 01601 , Ukraine
4Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH 45433, USA

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Abstract We demonstrate experimentally that Tamm plasmons in the near infrared can be supported by a dielectric mirror interfaced with a metasurface, a discontinuous thin metal film periodically patterned on the sub-wavelength scale. More crucially, not only do Tamm plasmons survive the nanopatterning of the metal film but they also become sensitive to external perturbations as a result. In particular, by depositing a nematic liquid crystal on the outer side of the metasurface, we were able to red shift the spectral position of Tamm plasmon by 35 nm, while electrical switching of the liquid crystal enabled us to tune the wavelength of this notoriously inert excitation within a 10-nm range.

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Nanophotonics

Tập 9 Số 4

897-903

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