Metal-dielectric bi-atomic structure for angular-tolerant spectral filtering

Opt Lett. 2013 Feb 15;38(4):425-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.000425.

Abstract

We theoretically study metal-dielectric structures made of bi-atomic metallic gratings coupled to a guided-mode dielectric resonator. The bi-atomic pattern grating allows tailoring of the Fourier spectrum of the inverse grating permittivity in order to adapt the frequency gap and obtain a flat dispersion band over a wide angular range. A significant enhancement (two-fold) of the angular tolerance as compared to a simply periodic structure is obtained.