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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Efficient band-pass color filters enabled by resonant modes and plasmons near the Rayleigh anomaly
Abstract:
We design and fabricate efficient, narrow-band, transmission color filters whose operating principle resides in a narrow-band guided-mode resonance associated with a surface-plasmon resonance. The fundamental device consists of an aluminum grating over a 200-nm-thick aluminum oxide film on a glass substrate. Numerical simulations show a sharp resonance-derived spectral profile that is additionally shaped by a neighboring Rayleigh anomaly. Besides the Rayleigh effect, we show numerically that the narrow bandwidth is predominantly due to the low refractive-index contrast between the waveguide film and the substrate. Red, green, and blue filters are fabricated using ultraviolet holographic lithography followed by a lift-off process. The experimental spectral efficiency in transmission exceeds 80% with full-width-at-half-maximum linewidths near 20 nm. We provide color images of the zero-order transmitted spectra, and illustrate the pure colors associated with the modal resonance extracted as side-coupled output light.
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