Adjustable transmission properties through ring-shaped nanotube arrays using finite-difference time-domain method

Abstract

Metallic ring-shaped nanotube arrays are proposed and its optical transmission properties are studied by using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Compared with the transmission spectra of conventional circular nanotube arrays, two photonic band gaps are emerged in the transmission spectra of ring-shaped nanotube arrays, the two band gaps and transmission spectra are adjusted by the length, inner radius, intertube spacing and the dielectric constants of the core and embedding medium, and magnitude modification, redshift and blueshift of the resonance modes are observed. A metallic ring-shaped nanotube arrays for subwavelength band-stop filter in the range of visible light can be achieved. To understand its physical origin, field-interference mechanism was suggested by the field distributions. The proposed nanostructures and results may have great potential applications in subwavelength near-field optics.

Keywords

ring-shaped nanotube arrays / plasmon / transmission spectrum / finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) / optimization

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