Optical range microcavities and filters using multiple dielectric layers in metal–insulator–metal structures

Abstract

We present a technique to adjust omnidirectional resonances in planar metallic microcavity structures. It is demonstrated numerically with realistic material parameters that by changing the thickness of different dielectric layers in metal–dielectric–metal structures, the omnidirectional resonance can be chosen to lie at an arbitrary frequency in the optical range. These ideas can also be applied to design a high-pass filter in the optical frequency range.

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