Coupled-cavity-based slow light metamaterials with antireflection structures

摘要

A slow light metamaterial based on a coupled Fabry-Perot cavity is proposed and numerically studied using finite-difference time-domain simulations. The coupled cavity-based slow light metamaterial is composed of a periodic array of partial mirrors with low transmittance, i.e., thin metal films perforated with a subwavelength hole array. The tight-binding model is employed to investigate the transmission properties of the coupled-cavity-based metamaterial. It is shown that the group velocities of the slowly propagating modes can be controlled by adjusting the radius of holes in the mirrors. We also show that undesirable reflections at the boundaries of the finite-size metamaterial can be minimized by introducing optimized antireflection structures.