Manipulation of spectral amplitude and phase with plasmonic nano-structures for information storage

doi:10.1007/s12200-014-0419-1

Front. Optoelectron.

2014, Vol. 7

Issue (4) : 437-442 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-014-0419-1

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Manipulation of spectral amplitude and phase with plasmonic nano-structures for information storage

Wei Ting CHEN^1,²,Pin Chieh WU^1,²,Kuang-Yu YANG³,Din Ping TSAI^1,^2,^3,^*(

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1. Department of Physics, Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, China
2. Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, China
3. Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, China

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Abstract

Optical storage devices, such as compact disk (CD) and digital versatile disc (DVD), provide us a platform for cheap and compact information storage media. Nowadays, information we obtain every day keeps increasing, and therefore how to increase the storage capacity becomes an important issue. In this paper, we reported a method for the increase of the capacity of optical storage devices using metallic nano-structures. Metallic nano-structures exhibit strong variations in their reflectance and/or transmittance spectra accompanied with dramatic optical phase modulation due to localized surface plasmon polariton resonances. Two samples were fabricated for the demonstration of storage capacity enhancement through amplitude modulation and phase modulation, respectively. This work is promising for high-density optical storage.

Keywords surface plasmon data storage localized surface plasmon resonance Fano resonance

Corresponding Author(s): Din Ping TSAI

Online First Date: 12 June 2014 Issue Date: 12 December 2014

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Wei Ting CHEN,Pin Chieh WU,Kuang-Yu YANG, et al. Manipulation of spectral amplitude and phase with plasmonic nano-structures for information storage[J]. Front. Optoelectron., 2014, 7(4): 437-442.

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Fig.1 Amplitude (orange curve) and phase (purple curve) modulation as function of wavelength for an array of 125-nm-long, 60-nm-width and 50-nm-thick gold nano-rods on top of a 50-nm-thick MgF₂ on a gold mirror. The period along both x- and y-direction is 250 nm. The plasmonic resonance shows dramatic phase and amplitude modulation at λ ~ 1350 nm

Fig.2 Schematic diagram and SEM images of two samples for information storage through amplitude modulation (a), (b) or phase modulation (c), (d) at plasmonic resonances. (a) Diagram showing the dimensions (in nm) of each nano-feature embedded within a single 500 nm × 500 nm unit-cell; (b) SEM image taken on a small region from the fabricated sample before MgF₂deposition. This array, which contains 10 different nano-patterns with a periodicity of 1.0 μm along both horizontal and vertical axes, was fabricated on glass substrate covered by a 135-nm-thick MgF₂ on its top; (c) SEM image of gold nano-rods with 60 nm line width and four different rod lengths L (L = 60, 103, 122 and 250 nm). The size of each pixel is 1.5 μm ×1.5 μm; (d) magnification image of frame (c)

Fig.3 Transmittance spectra of periodic arrays of identical unit cells for x-polarized and y-polarized illumination, each containing different nano-structures. In Figs. 3(a) and 3(b), the black spectrum corresponds to complete unit cells having all ten nano-features, whereas colored spectra represent unit cells with one feature removed; the missing feature is indicated in the legend. Figures 3(c) and 3(d) correspond to the unit cells contain a single nano-feature; the color (matched to the legend) identifies the nano-feature

Fig.4 Information storage through Au nano-rods. The phase information of letter “RCAS” is recorded by Au nano-rods on a gold mirror coupled to a 50-nm-thick dielectric buffer layer MgF₂. Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are the calculated reconstructed image “RCAS” and its four levels phase distribution. The experimental reconstructed image “RCAS” under 780-nm diode laser illumination is shown in Fig. 4(c)

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