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In this paper, we study transmission through the embedded arrays of subwavelength annular apertures at near-infrared. Single, i.e. non-embedded arrays of annular holes are known for their capability for high-efficiency transmission even through rather thick apertures in a wide frequency range, extending from microwaves to the visible. In the suggested structures, which contain up to four embedded arrays, multiband operation can be obtained, so that each array is mainly responsible for one of four transmission bands. In such a way, a demultiplexing-like functionality can be realized, i.e. the desired parts of the incident-wave spectrum are distributed between several transmission channels. In the studied structures, we obtain (nearly) zero phase advancement and that indicates near-zero-index behavior at the expected propagation thresholds of plasmonic modes in the frequency domain. Therefore, the earlier developed concept of supercoupling and squeezing into very narrow waveguide channels is applicable to the studied structures. The number of near-zero-index bands is determined by the number of the embedded arrays. The effects of thickness, width of the slits, and permittivity of the filling material are numerically studied and discussed in detail. It is shown that multiband transmission may exist in the near-zero-index regime in a very wide range of parameter variations.

Bi-tunable asymmetric light transmission (AT) and nearly perfect resonant absorption functionalities are achieved by a Lorentz-reciprocal metamaterial for the operation at the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths and transverse magnetic polarization. The bi-tunable metamaterial with bi-functional features and a total thickness of 1.8 mu m is based on an hBN/graphene/hBN heterostructure that is bounded by a Ge grating on the upper side and a hybrid VO2/Au grating on the lower side. Through analytical calculations, we first investigate how the dispersion characteristics of the high-beta hyperbolic phonon polaritons of hBN can be controlled and hybridized through the insulator (i-VO2) to metal (m-VO2) transition of VO2 in a bare hBN/VO2 heterostructure. Then, at the absence of graphene and owing to the support of the hybridized high-beta modes, a broad and efficient AT with forward-to-backward contrast exceeding 40% is obtained by numerical calculations for the i-VO2 case, as the first functionality of the structure. Moreover, it is found that for the m-VO2 case, the device is no longer transmittive and a nearly perfect resonant absorption response, as the second functionality, is observed for backward illumination. Finally, by introducing multilayer graphene into the structure and considering the intermediate states of VO2 in the calculations, the bi-tunable transmission and absorption characteristics of the device are investigated. We believe the designed metamaterial is well-suited for MIR optical diodes, sensors, and thermal emitters. (c) 2019 Optical Society of America

In this paper, we propose an electrically tunable mid-infrared plasmonic-phononic absoiber with omnidirectional and polarization insensitive nearly perfect resonant absorption characteristics. The absorber consists of a graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/graphene multilayer on top of a gold bottom reflector separated by a dielectric spacer. The graphene/hBN/graphene multilayer is patterned as a hole array in square lattice. We analytically and numerically prove that, due to the support of hybrid plasmon-phononpolaritons, nearly perfect multi-resonant absorption peaks with high quality factors are obtained both inside and outside of the Reststrahlen band of hBN. As a result of the hybridization of graphene plasmons with the hyperbolic phonon polaritons of hBN, the high quality resonant absorptions of the metamaterial are almost unaffected by decreasing the phenomenological electron relaxation time of graphene. Moreover, the obtained resonances can be effectively tuned in practice due to the continuity of the graphene layers in the hole array metamatenal. These features make the graphene-hBN metamaterial a skeptical design for practical purposes and mid-infrared multi-functional operations such as sensing. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement