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Coupled Tamm plasmon polaritons induced narrow bandpass filter with ultra-wide stopband

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Narrow bandpass filters (NBPFs) play important roles in optics, such as quantum communication, spectrometer, and wavelength division multiplexing. However, the stopband and restraint ability of traditional NBPFs is limited. In this article, a coupled Tamm plasmon polaritons (TPPs) induced transmission theory has been proposed to design high-efficiency NBPFs with ultra-wide deep stopbands. An NBPF at 1.55 µm has been experimentally demonstrated with full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 10 nm and stopband ranging from 0.2 to 25 µm which is 62 times wider than that of traditional ones. Furthermore, the restraint depth of the stopband reaches 0.03%, which is only 1/20 of a traditional filter with the same FWHM. Its advantage in restraining ambient light over traditional ones has also been demonstrated with an InGaAs infrared detector. It provides a very powerful way to capture specific narrowband optical signals from ultra-wide strong ambient light, especially useful for daytime quantum communications.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 11874376), Shanghai Science and Technology Foundations (Nos. 19DZ2293400, 19ZR1465900, and 21WZ2504800), Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2019SHZDZX01) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (Nos. 2020VTA0009, 2020PT0020, and 2021PT0007). And thanks to the support of Soft Matter Nanofab (No. SMN180827), Analytical Instrumentation Center (No. #SPST-AIC10112914) (SPST, ShanghaiTech University).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200083, China

    Qingquan Liu, Xinchao Zhao, Chenlu Li, Xinglei Zhou, Shaowei Wang & Wei Lu

  2. School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China

    Qingquan Liu, Chenlu Li & Wei Lu

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Qingquan Liu, Xinchao Zhao, Chenlu Li, Shaowei Wang & Wei Lu

  4. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Energy-Saving Coatings, Shanghai, 200083, China

    Qingquan Liu, Xinchao Zhao, Chenlu Li, Xinglei Zhou, Shaowei Wang & Wei Lu

  5. Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, 201315, China

    Shaowei Wang & Wei Lu

  6. Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200083, China

    Yu Chen

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S. W. W. and Q. Q. L. conceived the idea. Q. Q. L. performed the theory. X. C. Z., X. L. Z., and Q. Q. L. fabricated the filter. T. L. provided the InGaAs detector. Q. Q. L. and C. L. L. performed the imaging experiments. S. W. W. and W. L. organized the project, analyzed the results, and provided support. W. L., S. W. W., Q. Q. L., X. C. Z., and C. L. L. contributed to the preparation of the manuscript.

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Liu, Q., Zhao, X., Li, C. et al. Coupled Tamm plasmon polaritons induced narrow bandpass filter with ultra-wide stopband. Nano Res. 15, 4563–4568 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4064-x

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