1. Highly-resonant two-polarization transmission guided-mode resonance filter
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Stephane Calvez, Antoine Monmayrant, Henri Camon, Hervé Leplan, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Léopold Macé, Équipe Photonique (LAAS-PHOTO), Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes (LAAS), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, REOSC-safran, Société REOSC-Sagem, Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole), and Université de Toulouse (UT)
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Guided-mode resonance ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Germanium ,02 engineering and technology ,Grating ,01 natural sciences ,010309 optics ,Optics ,Band-pass filter ,0103 physical sciences ,Wideband ,[SPI.NANO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics ,Physics ,business.industry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Polarization (waves) ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,Transverse plane ,[SPI.ELEC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism ,chemistry ,[SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Refractive index ,lcsh:Physics - Abstract
International audience; We theoretically demonstrate a mid-infrared polarization-independent guided-mode-resonance transmission filter. We designed a structure based on a deeply-etched 2D grating above a thin slab of the same material respectively supporting transverse magnetic and transverse electric fundamental modes with identical effective index, which propagate along orthogonal directions. This device relates to multi-resonant guided-mode-resonance filters, and more particularly to the concept of zero-contrast gratings (ZCG), which can operate either as wideband reflectors [R. Magnusson, Optics Letters 39, 4337 (2014)] or bandpass filters [M. Niraula, J. W. Yoon, and R. Magnusson, Optics Letters 40, 5062 (2015)]. However, contrary to the latter, this new generation of filters is not bound by stringent material requirements inherent to conventional ZCGs. In particular, ZCGs are demonstrated with high to low refractive index ratio below 2, using germanium as high-index material over a low-index zinc sulfide substrate. These filters exhibit a transmission peak with a full-width at half-maximum of about 30 pm, and a maximum transmission close to 100 % lying in a 46-nm-wide rejection window.
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- 2018
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