• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 1, 68 (2022)
A. S. Lal Krishna, Sruti Menon, Asish Prosad, and Varun Raghunathan*
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  • Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.442650 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    A. S. Lal Krishna, Sruti Menon, Asish Prosad, Varun Raghunathan. Mid-infrared quasi-BIC resonances with sub-wavelength slot mode profiles in germanium-based coupled guided-mode resonance structures[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(1): 68 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We experimentally demonstrate a novel quasi-bound state in the continuum (BIC) resonance in the mid-infrared wavelength region with the resonant electric field confined as a slot mode within a low-refractive-index medium sandwiched between high-index layers. The structures studied here comprise coupled amorphous germanium guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures with a top one-dimensional grating layer and bottom uniform layer separated by a low-index silicon nitride layer. The slot-mode profile within the silicon nitride layer with mode field confinement >30% is achieved as a solution to the electromagnetic wave propagation through the coupled GMR structure with the dominant field component being perpendicular to the layers. The quasi-BIC resonance in symmetric 1D grating structures can be observed even at normal incidence when considering a realistic excitation beam with finite angular spread. The measured transmission peak is found to redshift (remain almost unchanged) under classical (full-conical) mounting conditions. The highest quality factor of 400 is experimentally extracted at normal incidence under a classical mounting condition with a resonance peak at 3.41 μm wavelength. Such slot-mode GMR structures with appropriately chosen low-index intermediate layers can find applications in resonantly enhanced sensing and active photonic devices.
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    A. S. Lal Krishna, Sruti Menon, Asish Prosad, Varun Raghunathan. Mid-infrared quasi-BIC resonances with sub-wavelength slot mode profiles in germanium-based coupled guided-mode resonance structures[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(1): 68
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