Due to its transparent and highly dispersive nature, plasmonically induced transparency (PIT) has become an attractive field in the on-chip control of light. Conventional methods to achieve PIT are only limited to the lowest dipole-dipole or dipole-combined quadrupole modes by breaking structural symmetry. Consequently, a general methodological framework for accurately designing all-order PIT remains absent. In this paper, we propose a theoretical scheme to achieve unidirectional odd-to-even order PIT by establishing a model with two layers of periodic graphene nanoribbons. The underlying physical principles are uncovered by defining the additional resonant phase of one mode over the other as phase difference, which predicts that the PIT effects appear (disappear) generally near the positions where the phase difference is around odd (even) multiple numbers of π. Full-wave simulations and theoretical analysis are used to demonstrate our proposal, revealing that the proposed PIT concept possesses good robustness against both the ribbon width and the relative ribbon positions. Our results serve to provide an effective method to realize all-order PIT and to design PIT-based photonic devices.

• Received 8 February 2022
• Revised 3 June 2022
• Accepted 21 July 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.075401