Optical responses of magnetic-vortex resonance in double-disk metamaterial variations

Abstract

Optical toroidal resonance in structural variations of the double-disk metamaterial, in viewpoint of an equivalent LC-circuit model, is numerically studied to optimize its geometrically-dependent optical characteristics, such as the enhancement capability of local-field confinement and the extinction coefficient. Responses of high-order magnetic vortex resonances (i.e., the double- and triple-fold vortex modes), in addition to the fundamental toroidal dipole, are excited in accordance with a standing-wave model of oscillating current. The induced strengths for these vortex responses are sensitive, in different manners, to the incident angle of the light, though their frequencies are angularly independent. • Toroidal resonance was studied in accordance with an LC-circuit model. • The fundamental and high-order H -vortex resonances were evaluated. • The toroidal response is promising for trapping and energy harvesting.