Bidirectional Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Based on Coupling of Magnetic Dipole Modes in Amorphous Silicon Metasurface
Shuang Liu,
Jingxin Dong,
Jiangnan Si,
Weiji Yang,
Xuanyi Yu,
Jialin Zhang,
Xiaoxu Deng
Affiliations
Shuang Liu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Jingxin Dong
School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Jiangnan Si
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Weiji Yang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Xuanyi Yu
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Jialin Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Xiaoxu Deng
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
A bidirectional electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) arising from coupling of magnetic dipole modes is demonstrated numerically and experimentally based on nanoscale a-Si cuboid-bar metasurface. Analyzed by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) Solutions, both the bright and dark magnetic dipole mode is excited in the cuboid, while only the dark magnetic dipole mode is excited in the bar. By breaking the symmetry of the cuboid-bar structure, the destructive interference between bright and dark magnetic dipole modes is induced, resulting in the bidirectional EIT phenomenon. The position and amplitude of simulated EIT peak is adjusted by the vertical spacing and horizontal spacing. The EIT metasurface was fabricated by Electron-Beam Lithography and deep silicon etching technique on the a-Si film deposited by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition. Measured by a convergent spectrometer, the fabricated sample achieved a bidirectional EIT peak with transmission up to 65% and 63% under forward and backward incidence, respectively. Due to the enhanced magnetic field induced by the magnetic dipole resonance, the fabricated bidirectional EIT metasurface provides a potential way for magnetic sensing and magnetic nonlinearity.