TITLE:
Ultra-High Specific Absorption of Metallic Binary-Groove Gratings
AUTHORS:
Yutong Li, Yumin Liu
KEYWORDS:
Surface Plasmon, Absorption, Gratings, Sensing
JOURNAL NAME:
Optics and Photonics Journal,
Vol.7 No.8B,
August
10,
2017
ABSTRACT:
A metallic binary-groove gratings, which can be exploited to absorb light at C-band and sense materials with refractive index (1.0 - 1.2), is proposed and investigated numerically. Both ultra-high absorption (99.937%) and sensitivity (1600 nm/RIU) are achieved.