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Title: Invited Article: Narrowband terahertz bandpass filters employing stacked bilayer metasurface antireflection structures

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate high-performance narrowband terahertz (THz) bandpass filters through cascading multiple bilayer metasurface antireflection structures. Each bilayer metasurface, consisting of a square array of silicon pillars with a self-aligned top gold resonator-array and a complementary bottom gold slot-array, enables near-zero reflection and simultaneously close-to-unity single-band transmission at designed operational frequencies in the THz spectral region. The THz bandpass filters based on stacked bilayer metasurfaces allow a fairly narrow, high-transmission passband, and a fast roll-off to an extremely clean background outside the passband, thereby providing superior bandpass performance. The demonstrated scheme of narrowband THz bandpass filtering is of great importance for a variety of applications where spectrally clean, high THz transmission over a narrow bandwidth is desired, such as THz spectroscopy and imaging, molecular detection and monitoring, security screening, and THz wireless communications.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
  3. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1423978
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1419699
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-28324
Journal ID: ISSN 2378-0967
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
APL Photonics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Chang, Chun-Chieh, Huang, Li, Nogan, John, and Chen, Hou-Tong. Invited Article: Narrowband terahertz bandpass filters employing stacked bilayer metasurface antireflection structures. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5003984.
Chang, Chun-Chieh, Huang, Li, Nogan, John, & Chen, Hou-Tong. Invited Article: Narrowband terahertz bandpass filters employing stacked bilayer metasurface antireflection structures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5003984
Chang, Chun-Chieh, Huang, Li, Nogan, John, and Chen, Hou-Tong. Thu . "Invited Article: Narrowband terahertz bandpass filters employing stacked bilayer metasurface antireflection structures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5003984. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423978.
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author = {Chang, Chun-Chieh and Huang, Li and Nogan, John and Chen, Hou-Tong},
abstractNote = {We experimentally demonstrate high-performance narrowband terahertz (THz) bandpass filters through cascading multiple bilayer metasurface antireflection structures. Each bilayer metasurface, consisting of a square array of silicon pillars with a self-aligned top gold resonator-array and a complementary bottom gold slot-array, enables near-zero reflection and simultaneously close-to-unity single-band transmission at designed operational frequencies in the THz spectral region. The THz bandpass filters based on stacked bilayer metasurfaces allow a fairly narrow, high-transmission passband, and a fast roll-off to an extremely clean background outside the passband, thereby providing superior bandpass performance. The demonstrated scheme of narrowband THz bandpass filtering is of great importance for a variety of applications where spectrally clean, high THz transmission over a narrow bandwidth is desired, such as THz spectroscopy and imaging, molecular detection and monitoring, security screening, and THz wireless communications.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5003984},
journal = {APL Photonics},
number = 5,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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