Abstract

We demonstrate the design of an efficient angle-insensitive guided mode resonance filter (GMRF), with narrow bandwidth and low sideband reflection, for TE-polarized waves. The reflection properties of the multilayer structure have been studied, and the results verify that the thin film design of the gradient-index layer is important for the realization of an angle-insensitive filter. Various gradient coefficients of the thin film have distinct effects on the reflection spectrum. For an increasing incident angle, although the line-shape symmetry becomes less perfect, the positions of the resonant peak remain the same. The GMRF proposed here has many desirable attributes that lends itself to being an excellent platform, for devices such as lasers, detectors, filters, and sensors.

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