URSI RCRS 2020, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India, 12 - 14 February, 2020

Extreme High-Q Resonant Transmission through Aperture Cavity Array

Arnab Pattanayak(1), Dhruval Shah* (2), and S.S. Prabhu(1)
(1) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 400005, e-mail: arnab1134@gmail.com
(2) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382355; e-mail: dhruval.shah@iitgn.ac.in

In this article, we present the simulation study of Tera-Hertz (THz) transmission through an array of rectangular
apertures in subwavelength thick metal plate. Terahertz transmission has been studied through aperture array in
free-standing thin metal foil and demonstrated that such low cost free standing perforated meta-foil can be used
as a potential sensor [1,2]. In the current study, we demonstrate that the resonance quality of the transmission
through the perforated metal plate can be as high as Q~440 in Tera-Hertz (THz) frequency regime. Hence, This
structure can be employed for very high resolution sensing. The schematic of the aperture array is shown in
Figure 1(a). The geometric dimensions are mentioned in the caption of the figure. Due to finite dimension in the
direction of wave propagation, we observe a resonant cavity mode along with the standard aperture mode. As
illustrated in figure 1(b), we observe two transmission peaks for cavity length L= 900 μm (blue dash-dotted line).
However, with decreasing cavity length, both peaks are blue shifted towards the lattice mode of the aperture. At
L= 400 μm, we observe that both peaks are very near to the lattice mode and they merged with each other to
form a very high Q resonance peak(solid black line) at ~271.56 THz.

Figure 1. (a) Schematic of aperture array (L=700 μm, W = 200 μm, D = 500 μm) (b) transmission spectra at
different values of L.

We also plot the electric field distributions at two resonance peaks for L= 700 μm in Figure 2(a) and (b),
respectively. The field distributions show the induced waveguide mode at the aperture and cavity resonance
mode inside the cavity, respectively.

Figure 2. (a) Electric field distribution (a) at aperture surface (b) inside aperture cavity.

1. Renu Bhadresha et al., “THz bandpass filter based on sub-wavelength holes in free-standing metal thin-
films,” IRMMW-THz 2015 - 40th Int. Conf. Infrared, Millimeter, Terahertz Waves, pp. 1–2, 2015 .
2. Abhishek Panghal et al., “Terahertz Chemical Sensor based on the Plasmonic Hexagonal Microstructured
Holes Array in Aluminum” IRMMW-THz 2019 - 44th Int. Conf. Infrared, Millimeter, Terahertz Waves, pp. 1–2,
2019 .