Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Filter With Reconfigurable Dual and Non-Linear Notched Characteristics

Abstract

In this brief, we propose a spoof surface plasmon polariton (SPP) filter with reconfigurable dual and non-linear notched frequencies. The SPP waveguide with asymmetrical geometry leads to asymmetrical field confinement depending on the groove orientation. By loading half-wavelength SPP resonators along the weaker field confinement side of the asymmetrical SPP waveguide, dual notches can be generated in the SPP transmission. Meanwhile, since the dispersion of SPP cell is not linear, the dual notched frequency locations are also non-linearly spaced. Varactor diodes, with voltage controllable capacitance, are incorporated into the SPP resonators to engineer the SPP non-linear dispersion. Thus, the SPP effective wavelength can be altered and the dual-notched frequencies be tuned. Two reconfigurable notched frequencies are achieved at 4.29/5.69, 4.045/5.27 and 3.765/4.85 GHz with 16, 4.5 and 0 V bias, respectively.