发明申请
US20120243821A1 TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER UTILIZING A LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDE TO ACHIEVE A WIDE TUNING RANGE
审中-公开
使用长距离表面平面波极管实现一个宽调谐范围的光电滤波器
- 专利标题: TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTER UTILIZING A LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVEGUIDE TO ACHIEVE A WIDE TUNING RANGE
- 专利标题(中): 使用长距离表面平面波极管实现一个宽调谐范围的光电滤波器
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申请号: US13426329申请日: 2012-03-21
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公开(公告)号: US20120243821A1公开(公告)日: 2012-09-27
- 发明人: Mikhail Belkin , Jongwon Lee
- 申请人: Mikhail Belkin , Jongwon Lee
- 申请人地址: US TX Austin
- 专利权人: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
- 当前专利权人: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
- 当前专利权人地址: US TX Austin
- 主分类号: G02B6/00
- IPC分类号: G02B6/00 ; G02B5/28 ; B82Y20/00
摘要:
An optical filter and a method for fabricating an optical filter with a wide tuning range and a structure subject to miniaturization. The optical filter includes a bottom and a top dielectric layer with a stripe or film of metal between the dielectric layers which have dissimilar refractive index dispersion. The stripe of metal functions as a waveguide supporting a long-range surface plasmon polariton mode which will be achieved at wavelengths for which the refractive indices of the dielectric layers are the same thereby providing a bandpass filter. Furthermore, one of the dielectric layers is made of a material that allows its refractive index to be tuned, such as by changing its applied voltage or temperature. By tuning the refractive index of the dielectric layer, the wavelength at which the refractive indices of the dielectric layers match changes thereby effectively tuning the optical filter.