Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)925-927
Abstract
According to the dispersion property, spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs)
can be supported within a low-pass propagating band. When the operating frequency rises to
approach the asymptotic limit, which is also known as the surface plasma frequency, the spoof
SPP modes vanish and the propagation cuts off. In this paper, we propose a method to achieve
tunable rejections of spoof SPPs by producing independent absorptions. A spoof SPP waveguide
consisting of corrugated microstrip line and matching convertors is introduced and electrically
resonant metamaterials, the electric-field-coupled-LCs (ELCs), are employed and arranged along
both sides of the waveguide. Since the electric field around the SPP waveguide excites strong
and tight coupling to ELCs at resonant frequencies and their relative impedance keeps matching
within a broadband, the propagating SPP modes are absorbed by such metamaterial particles and
SPP filters with broad propagating band and significant rejection are achieved. Furthermore, the
transmissions of the SPP filter with a series of ELCs scaled by different factors are investigated
to clarify that the resonant frequency is directly controlled by the dimension of the metamaterial
particles and that the coupling effect between different ELCs are weak enough to be ignored.
As a result, it is convenient to control the absorptions by simply modulating the scaling factors
of ELCs to construct a multiple rejection filter.Simulation results prove that the filter exhibits
several significant rejections of −15 dB within a broad high-efficient propagating band. The
proposed highly-efficient ultrathin planar filter is able to play an important role of filtering SPP
waves in plasmonic circuits and systems.
Citation
Tie Jun Cui,
and
Bai Cao Pan,
"Tunable Rejections of Metamaterial Filter Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)925-927