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Manipulation of spectral amplitude and phase with plasmonic nano-structures for information storage

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Optical storage devices, such as compact disk (CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD), provide us a platform for cheap and compact information storage media. Nowadays, information we obtain every day keeps increasing, and therefore how to increase the storage capacity becomes an important issue. In this paper, we reported a method for the increase of the capacity of optical storage devices using metallic nano-structures. Metallic nano-structures exhibit strong variations in their reflectance and/or transmittance spectra accompanied with dramatic optical phase modulation due to localized surface plasmon polariton resonances. Two samples were fabricated for the demonstration of storage capacity enhancement through amplitude modulation and phase modulation, respectively. This work is promising for high-density optical storage.

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  1. Department of Physics, Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, China

    Wei Ting Chen, Pin Chieh Wu & Din Ping Tsai

  2. Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, China

    Wei Ting Chen, Pin Chieh Wu & Din Ping Tsai

  3. Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, China

    Kuang-Yu Yang & Din Ping Tsai

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Mr. Wei Ting Chen

Ph.D student in Graduate Institute of Applied Physics of Taiwan University, Taiwan, China

Mr. Wei Ting Chen received his BSc in Physics in 2008. He got his Master’s degree with Dean’s Award in Graduated Institute of Physics from Taiwan University (NTU) in 2011. Mr. Wei Ting Chen is a Ph.D student at Graduate Institute of Applied Physics in NTU. His current research interests lie in the fields of three-dimensional nanofabrication using e-beam lithography, metamaterials, nanophotonics and metasurfaces.

Mr. Pin Chieh Wu

Ph.D student in Graduate Institute of Applied Physics of Taiwan University, Taiwan, China

Mr. Pin Chieh Wu is currently working on his Ph.D degree at Graduate Institute of Applied Physics in Taiwan University. His researches include the design, fabrication and characterization of plasmonic devices and three dimensional metamaterials. In particular, his research is concerned and developed with the specific properties such as tunability and sensing functionalities of plasmonic metamaterials.

Mr. Kuang-Yu Yang

Ph.D student in photonics Institute of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

After received his BSc in Physics at Chung Yuan Christian University and master degree in Applied Physics from Taiwan University, Kuang-Yu Yang joined the Research Center for Applied Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 2012 as a research assistant. Afterward, he started Ph.D in Photonics Institute of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2014. His master study were devoted to plasmonic metamaterials using e-beam nanofabrication, photothermal cancer therapy with metal nanoparticles, and most recently focused on designing metadevices with extraordinary light-manipulate functionalities in optical frequency, such as plasmonic metasurfaces and meta-hologram. In the Ph.D study, his interests include nonlinear plasmonics, biosensing, and realizing advanced functional metadevices with meta-surfaces.

Prof. Din Ping Tsai

Distinguished Professor, Taiwan University Director and Distinguished Research Fellow Research Center for Applied Sciences, Acadamia Sinica

Prof. Din Ping Tsai received his Ph.D degree in Physics from University of Cincinnati, USA in 1990. He was a Member of Research Staff at Micro Lithography Inc. from 1990 to 1991, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Toronto from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 1999, he was an Associate Professor at Chung Cheng University. He joined Taiwan University (NTU) as an Associate Professor in 1999, and became Professor and Distinguished Professor at NTU in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He served as the Director General of the Instrument Technology Research Center located in Hsinchu Science Park from 2008 to 2012. He is the Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica since 2012. His current research interests are applications of nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials on energy, environmental and better life. Prof. Tsai is the President of Taiwan Photonics Society and a Fellow of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) and Electro Magnetics Academy (EMA).

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Chen, W.T., Wu, P.C., Yang, KY. et al. Manipulation of spectral amplitude and phase with plasmonic nano-structures for information storage. Front. Optoelectron. 7, 437–442 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-014-0419-1

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