Spectral Splitting Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Plasmonic Waveguide Resonator System

Spectral splitting is numerically investigated based on the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a nanoscale plasmonic waveguide resonator system, which consists of a square ring resonator coupled with a stub-shaped metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide. Simulation results show that the transparency window can be easily tuned by changing the geometrical parameters of the structure and the material filled in the resonators. By adding another stub or (and) square ring resonator, multi-EIT-like peaks appear in the broadband transmission spectrum, and the physical mechanism is presented. Our compact plasmonic structure may have potential applications for nanoscale optical switching, nanosensor, nanolaser, and slow-light devices in highly integrated optical circuits.

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