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Polarization-Induced Tunability of Plasmonic Light Absorption in Arrays of Sub-Wavelength Elliptical Disks

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Polarization-independent plasmonic light absorbers have been widely investigated in the past decades. Nevertheless, the feasibility for artificial manipulation of the optical properties by controlling the polarization state is desirable for numerous applications including the coloring, displaying, filtering, etc. Here, we present a straightforward method to achieve tunable multiple narrowband light absorption by using the polarization-dependent plasmonic cavity resonances in a common metal-dielectric-metal structure consisting of an elliptical disk array. Multiple light absorption bands with the maximal absorption of 98 % are achieved. Moreover, by controlling the illumination polarization state, artificial spectral modulation depth of these light absorption bands can be up to 90 % based on this structure platform. In addition, since this multispectral polarization-manipulated absorber is realized in such a common sub-wavelength plasmonic structure, it will open up a simple and universal approach for multispectral nanophotonic devices including the high-compact polychromatic color filtering, imaging, and detecting.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 11464019, 11264017, and 61308096), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20142BAB212001), and Young Scientist development program of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20142BCB23008).

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Liu, Z., Liu, G., Wang, Y. et al. Polarization-Induced Tunability of Plasmonic Light Absorption in Arrays of Sub-Wavelength Elliptical Disks. Plasmonics 11, 79–86 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-0024-1

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