一种类FabryPerot微谐振腔可调光学滤波阵列的研究.pdfVIP

Study of a Fabry-Perot-like Microcavity with Sandwiched Metallic Gratings for Tunable Filter Arrays Zhijun Sun and Qi Lin Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China sunzj@ Abstract In this article, we propose a filtering device of Fabry-Perot-like microcavity with metallic gratings sandwiched between micro-spaced optically-thin metal layers. By varying the period of the gratings, the resonance wavelength of transmission can be tuned in the optical spectrum regime. As analysis of the microcavity is beyond the classical theory of a Fabry-Perot cavity and the structured media with fine gratings in the microcavity behave like an effective medium, the microcavity is modeled as laterally coupled sub-microcavities and the effective index of the cavity media is calculated. The proposed microcavity is promising for arrayed filters in integrated micro-optical systems. Keywords: Microcavity, filter, Fabry-Perot, grating. 1 Introduction Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity is probably the most efficient and widely-used type of optical resonance devices. In the stream of developing integrated micro-optical systems, we have to consider microcavities. The tunability of integrated microcavities are important for various applications, such as color display [ 1]-[3], chip-on spectrum analyzing [4] and bio-chemical sensing [5]. Tuning of the FP resonance is usually based on variation of the