Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays
Abstract
Tunable filters can use Fano metasurface designs having extremely narrow transmission bands. The Fano metasurface can comprise dielectric or semiconductor materials and can produce transmission bands with quality factors well in excess of 1000—at least a factor of 50 greater than typical metamaterial-based infrared resonances. Numerical simulations of these metasurfaces show that the spectral position of the passband can be changed by slightly changing the position of a small dielectric perturbation block placed within the near-field of the resonator by using simple electromechanical actuation architectures that allow for such motion. An array of independently tunable narrowband infrared filters can thereby be fabricated that only requires deep-subwavelength motions of perturbing objects in the resonator's near-field.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1576379
- Patent Number(s):
- 10393933
- Application Number:
- 15/624,117
- Assignee:
- National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2017 Jun 15
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Sinclair, Michael B., Campione, Salvatore, Burckel, David Bruce, Brener, Igal, and Resnick, Paul J. Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays. United States: N. p., 2019.
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Sinclair, Michael B., Campione, Salvatore, Burckel, David Bruce, Brener, Igal, & Resnick, Paul J. Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays. United States.
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"Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1576379.
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title = {Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays},
author = {Sinclair, Michael B. and Campione, Salvatore and Burckel, David Bruce and Brener, Igal and Resnick, Paul J.},
abstractNote = {Tunable filters can use Fano metasurface designs having extremely narrow transmission bands. The Fano metasurface can comprise dielectric or semiconductor materials and can produce transmission bands with quality factors well in excess of 1000—at least a factor of 50 greater than typical metamaterial-based infrared resonances. Numerical simulations of these metasurfaces show that the spectral position of the passband can be changed by slightly changing the position of a small dielectric perturbation block placed within the near-field of the resonator by using simple electromechanical actuation architectures that allow for such motion. An array of independently tunable narrowband infrared filters can thereby be fabricated that only requires deep-subwavelength motions of perturbing objects in the resonator's near-field.},
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