Optical response of resonator induced plasmon filters: Nanometric diatomic structures

Abstract

We investigate the optical response of plasmon filters, which are composed of a diatomic chain of metallic nanoclusters along which a resonator, composed of one or two metallic nanoclusters, is coupled vertically. Taking into account the resonator, we show that the transmission amplitude T of the electromagnetic radiation may display dips when the geometrical parameters are chosen properly. The presence of a resonator composed of one metallic nanocluster yields a dip at the cluster resonance frequency. When the resonator is composed of two nanoclusters, then if the nanoclusters are of the same material, two dips emerge as a consequence of the splitting of the dip of the one-nanocluster resonator. If the resonator is of two different materials, then we obtain two dips near the resonance frequencies of the nanoclusters. These dips appear when the separations between nanoclusters are properly adjusted. Such a device may be used to transfer directionally the electromagnetic radiation. In the limit of equal atomic nanoclusters we reproduce the monoatomic chain results (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved