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Tunable Perfect Absorber from Visible to Near-infrared with Insensitive Properties to Incident Angle and Polarization

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In this paper, we propose an Insulator-Metal-Insulator-Metal (IMIM) nano-block array structure, which can achieve tunable single-peak and double-peak perfect absorption properties from visible light to near-infrared. Compared with our previous work, this paper additionally points out that due to the coupling effect between SPPs, the original blue-shifted spectrum is converted into red-shifted during the process of changing the thickness ratio of the middle silver nano-block to the SiO2 nano-block. In the design parameter range, two different structural parameters can be found, in which the absorption peak is exactly the same, and the short-wave absorption peak position has the characteristics of “on” and “off”. Based on the nature of absorption spectrum, it can be applied to optical switches in optical circuits. And this work also provides a new idea for plasma sensors, which has broad application prospects in the fields of filtering and imaging.

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This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61705226).

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  1. Yuchen Lim, Ying Xiong, Zizheng Li, Xiaoyi Wang, and Jinsong Gao contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Optical System Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southeast Lake Road, Changchun, 130033, Jilin, China

    Yuanhang Zhao, Yuchen Lin, Ying Xiong, Xiaoyi Wang & Jinsong Gao

  2. College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanqi Lake Campus, Beijing, 100039, Beijing, China

    Yuanhang Zhao, Yuchen Lin, Ying Xiong & Jinsong Gao

  3. MOE Key Laboratory of TianQin Mission, TianQin Research Center for Gravitational Physics and School of Physics and Astronomy, Frontiers Science Center for TianQin, Gravitational Wave Research Center of CNSA, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai Campus, Zhuhai, 519082, Guangzhou, China

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Zhao, Y., Lin, Y., Xiong, Y. et al. Tunable Perfect Absorber from Visible to Near-infrared with Insensitive Properties to Incident Angle and Polarization. Plasmonics 17, 2031–2036 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-022-01690-z

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