Dynamically tunable electromagnetically induced transparency-like metamaterial structure based on polarization sensitivity

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) metamaterial structure composed of Ag nanomaterials with polarization sensitivity. The metamaterial model consists of three bright modes with different resonant frequencies. The optical properties of the structure are further investigated using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The results show that the conversion between single-band PIT and dual-band PIT effects can be achieved by changing the polarization degree of the incident light, the number of transparent windows can be changed from one to two, and the process is accompanied by the conversion of bright and dark modes and the change of the resonance wavelength of the transmission peak. In addition, When the light is polarized in the Y-direction, the two transparency windows have different refractive index sensitivities, with FOM values of 5.94/RIU and 5.65/RIU, respectively.