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Multi-Band Ultra-Sharp Transmission Response in All-Dielectric Resonant Structures Containing Kerr Nonlinear Media

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All-dielectric resonant structure (ADRS) consisting of high-index nonlinear dielectrics has been theoretically and numerically demonstrated with multi-band ultra-sharp transmission response in this work. Bandwidth down to sub-nanometer and spectral Q-factor up to 920 are achieved in this ADRS-based metamaterial-like platform. Strong resonant electric field distributions by the high-index dielectric resonators and efficient coupling between the layered dielectric particles and the cavity mainly contribute to the multiple narrowband light transmission filtering. By using a Kerr nonlinear medium as the resonant dielectric, the positions of the transmission dips in the spectrum can be actively tuned by the incident light intensity. Due to the ultra-narrow spectral feature and the strong electric field distribution by the resonators, an efficient all-optical switching behavior with high spectral difference intensity and contrast ratio is obtained. Further study presents the observed multi-band transmission with high scalability by tuning the structural parameters. These optical features hold the predicted ADRS be potentially applied to constructing dielectric metamaterial-based all-optical switching or active subtractive transmission filtering with low power threshold at sub-diffraction scale.

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The work supported from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11464019, 11264017, 11564017, and 11304159), Young Scientist Development Program of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20142BCB23008), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20142BAB212001).

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    Zhengqi Liu, Guolan Fu, Zhenping Huang & Xiaoshan Liu

  2. College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency and Micro-Nano Electronics of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Jing Chen

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Liu, Z., Fu, G., Huang, Z. et al. Multi-Band Ultra-Sharp Transmission Response in All-Dielectric Resonant Structures Containing Kerr Nonlinear Media. Plasmonics 12, 577–582 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0300-8

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