We propose an innovative structural design based on a metamaterial absorber in the terahertz band. And verified the absorption curve of the new structure by using FDTD software simulation. The absorption curves of the light source at different incident angles and polarizations were simulated.The simulation results show that the multi-layer covering structure effectively increases the absorption bandwidth of the metamaterial absorber in the terahertz band. And the absorption curve is higher and flatter.
Compared with bulk materials, the corresponding metal nanoparticles have different optical and nonlinear optical effects. The research and analysis show that the properties of nanostructures with different sizes or shapes are different when the materials are the same. For Au nanoparticles, their SPR absorption bands can be tuned throughout the visible spectrum by changing the size and shape of nanoparticles. In this paper, the optical properties of gold nontriangular structures have been studied by finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The effects of size, thickness and dielectric constant of gold nanometer triangle on its absorption spectrum were discussed. There are three absorption peaks in the cash nontriangular structure. When the thickness is the same (20nm), with the increase of the size of the gold triangular prism structure, the three absorption peaks shift red, the red shift speed increases gradually, and the absorption coefficient increases in turn. The red shift velocity of the main peak absorption peak is stronger than that of the secondary absorption peak. Under the same size structure (100nm), with the increase of gold nanometer triangle thickness, the main absorption peak shifts blue and the absorption coefficient decreases in turn. When the size and thickness are the same, with the increase of dielectric constant, the three absorption peaks shift red, and the absorption coefficient decreases in turn.
The nonlinear absorption properties of spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with average sizes of 15nm and 30 nm were studied by Z-scan technique. The experimental results show that under the same excitation conditions, both samples show the switch behavior from saturable absorption (SA) to reverse saturable absorption (RSA). The research results show that, SA is caused by plasma bleaching of ground state, and the RSA results from free-carrier absorption. And nonlinear properties of AgNPs is size-dependent. The estimated values of πΌπ were 1.62 Γ 1011πβπ2 and 2.40 Γ 1011πβπ2 for AgNPs with size 15nm and 30nm, respectively, where as the corresponding Ξ² values were 0.56 Γ 10β10 πβπ and 1.17 Γ 10β10 πβπ. Besides, the ultrafast dynamics of the AgNPs was studied using white-light pump-probe technology. The experiments show that the process includes a slow decay and fast decay process. The theoretical values of slow decay were 5.5ps and 3.1ps for 15nm AgNPs and 30nm AgNPs, respectively, and the corresponding fast decay process values were 20ps and 55ps. The research results show that the ultrafast dynamics of AgNPs is size-dependent. The slow process was due to the electron-phonon coupling, and the fast process is due to the phonon-phonon coupling.
A plasmonic sensor which can detect the refractive index and the polarization of incident light is proposed. The sensor is based on a gold composite structure constructed from a gold film which was etched a plurality of circular arc-shaped slits. The transmission spectra of the composite structure are theoretically studied using the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD), and the influence of structure parameters on the transmission spectra are also studied. Moreover, it was found that the transmission spectra of are sensitive to environment refractive index, which can be used to detect refractive index. Specifically, the sensitivity of 550 nm/RIU was obtained after optimizing the structure parameters. Due to the asymmetry of the sensor structure, this design can also detect the polarization direction of light.
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