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Tunable multimode electromagnetically induced absorption transmission in metal-insulator-metal resonators

Dongdong Liu, Yuewu Pan, Yan Sun, Xiushan Xia, Jicheng Wang, Jian Lü

Published Feb 1, 2016• 12 citations

Abstract

The tunable multimode electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA)-like transmission was investigated in a two-ring system. In this system, by introducing asymmetry factor δi = λr - λr′, we provided several ways to modulate the EIA-like transmission spectra. An off-to-on EIA-like response could be realized by changing the radius or the refractive index of the rings. During the off-to-on process, we found the red shift and blue shift effects in the spectra are appeared and the widths of EIA-like dips are broadened. Numerical simulation by finite element method was conducted to verify our discussion. We believe all these would provide guidelines to design the useful EIA-like devices.

DOI: 10.1063/1.4942937

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