title: Band-selective optical polarizer based on gold-nanowire plasmonic diffraction gratings.
abstract: We report a plasmonic diffraction grating device as a new kind of optical polarizer. This simple device consists of periodically distributed gold nanowires on top of a transparent glass substrate and is based on the strong polarization dependence of the particle plasmon resonance of the gold nanowires. A high-efficiency secondary diffraction in the same device enhances the polarization extinction ratio significantly. Linearly polarized spectrum in the red with a bandwidth of 53 nm is selectively picked up from the nonpolarized white light, where a polarization extinction ratio higher than 100 at about 650 nm has been achieved. The idea of plasmonic diffraction grating is important for exploiting new detection and sensor techniques.
authors.affiliation: College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, People's Republic of China. zhangxinping@bjut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Xinping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hongmei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jinrong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Yanrong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang