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

Wei Ting CHEN; Pin Chieh WU; Kuang-Yu YANG; Din Ping TSAI

doi:10.1007/s12200-014-0419-1

[1] Satoh I, Ohara S, Akahira N, Takenaga M. Key technology for high density rewritable DVD (DVD-RAM). IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1998, 34(2): 337–342

[2] Chu C H, Shiue C D, Cheng H W, Tseng M L, Chiang H P, Mansuripur M, Tsai D P. Laser-induced phase transitions of Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films used in optical and electronic data storage and in thermal lithography. Optics Express, 2010, 18(17): 18383–18393

[3] Lin S K, Lin I C, Chen S Y, Hsu H W, Tsai D P. Study of nanoscale recorded marks on phase-change recording layers and the interactions with surroundings. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2007, 43(2): 861–863

[4] Borg H J, Schijndel M, Rijpers J C N, Lankhorst M H R, Zhou G F, Dekker M J, Ubbens I P D, Kuijper M. Phase-change media for high-numerical-aperture and blue-wavelength recording. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2001, 40(3S): 1592–1597

[5] Heanue J F, Bashaw M C, Hesselink L. Volume holographic storage and retrieval of digital data. Science, 1994, 265(5173): 749–752

[6] Tominaga J, Nakano T, Atoda N. An approach for recording and readout beyond the diffraction limit with an Sb thin film. Applied Physics Letters, 1998, 73(15): 2078–2080

[7] Lin W C, Kao T S, Chang H H, Lin Y H, Fu Y H, Wu C T, Chen K H, Tsai D P. Study of a super-resolution optical structure: polycarbonate/ZnS-SiO2/ZnO/ZnS-SiO2/Ge2Sb2Te5/ZnS-SiO2. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2003, 42(2S): 1029–1030

[8] Tsai D P, Guo W R. Near-field optical recording on the cyanine dye layer of a commercial compact disk-recordable. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A-Vacuum Surfaces and Films, 1997, 15(3): 1442–1445

[9] Chiu K P, Lai K F, Tsai D P. Application of surface polariton coupling between nano recording marks to optical data storage. Optics Express, 2008, 16(18): 13885–13892

[10] Kawata S, Kawata Y. Three-dimensional optical data storage using photochromic materials. Chemical Reviews, 2000, 100(5): 1777–1788

[11] Day D, Gu M, Smallridge A. Rewritable 3D bit optical data storage in a PMMA-based photorefractive polymer. Advanced Materials, 2001, 13(12–13): 1005–1007

[12] Zijlstra P, Chon J W M, Gu M. Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods. Nature, 2009, 459(7245): 410–413

[13] O’Connor D, Zayats A V. Data storage: the third plasmonic revolution. Nature Nanotechnology, 2010, 5(7): 482–483

[14] Ebbesen T W, Lezec H J, Ghaemi H F, Thio T, Wolff P A. Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays. Nature, 1998, 391(6668): 667–669

[15] Zakharian A, Mansuripur M, Moloney J. Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures. Optics Express, 2004, 12(12): 2631–2648

[16] Wyrowski F, Bryngdahl O. Iterative Fourier-transform algorithm applied to computer holography. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1988, 5(7): 1058–1065

[17] Naik G V, Kim J, Boltasseva A. Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range [Invited]. Optical Materials Express, 2011, 1(6): 1090–1099

[18] Naik G V, Shalaev V M, Boltasseva A. Alternative plasmonic materials: beyond gold and silver. Advanced Materials, 2013, 25(24): 3264–3294

[19] Huang J S, Callegari V, Geisler P, Brüning C, Kern J, Prangsma J C, Wu X, Feichtner T, Ziegler J, Weinmann P, Kamp M, Forchel A, Biagioni P, Sennhauser U, Hecht B. Atomically flat singlecrystalline gold nanostructures for plasmonic nanocircuitry. Nature Communications, 2010, 1(9): 150

[20] Fedotov V A, Uchino T, Ou J Y. Low-loss plasmonic metamaterial based on epitaxial gold monocrystal film. Optics Express, 2012, 20(9): 9545–9550

[21] Luk’yanchuk B, Zheludev N I, Maier S A, Halas N J, Nordlander P, Giessen H, Chong C T. The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials. Nature Materials, 2010, 9(9): 707–715

[22] Wu P C, Chen W T, Yang K Y, Hsiao C T, Sun G, Liu A Q, Zheludev N I, Tsai D P. Magnetic plasmon induced transparency in three-dimensional metamolecules. Nanophotonics, 2012, 1(2): 131–138

[23] Larouche S, Tsai Y J, Tyler T, Jokerst N M, Smith D R. Infrared metamaterial phase holograms. Nature Materials, 2012, 11(5): 450–454

[24] Walther B, Helgert C, Rockstuhl C, Setzpfandt F, Eilenberger F, Kley E B, Lederer F, Tünnermann A, Pertsch T. Spatial and spectral light shaping with metamaterials. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24(47): 6300–6304

[25] Walther B, Helgert C, Rockstuhl C, Pertsch T. Diffractive optical elements based on plasmonic metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters, 2011, 98(19): 191101-1–191101-3

[26] Chen W T, Yang K Y, Wang C M, Huang Y W, Sun G, Chiang I D, Liao C Y, Hsu W L, Lin H T, Sun S, Zhou L, Liu A Q, Tsai D P. High-efficiency broadband meta-hologram with polarization-controlled dual images. Nano Letters, 2014, 14(1): 225–230

[27] Ni X, Kildishev A V, Shalaev V M. Metasurface holograms for visible light. Nature Communications, 2013, 4: 2807

[28] Huang L, Chen X, Mühlenbernd H, Zhang H, Chen S, Bai B, Tan Q, Jin G, Cheah K W, Qiu C W, Li J, Zentgraf T, Zhang S. Threedimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface. Nature Communications, 2013, 4: 2808