The interplay between Fano and Fabry–Pérot resonances in dual-period metagratings

Abstract

We study theoretically and numerically the occurrence of Fano resonances in a metagrating made of slits with some symmetry breaking resulting in a dual period. At low frequency, a grating composed of long enough slits supports Fabry–Pérot resonances on which Fano resonances superimpose when the grating acquires dual period. The resulting spectrum exhibits flat-banded peaks interrupted by sharp dips with successions of perfect and zero transmissions. To model these scattering properties, homogenization theory is used resulting in an effective problem governing the solutions in the two, non-identical, slits, which are coupled through jump conditions at the grating interfaces. These jumps efficiently encode the effect of the evanescent field able to resonate in the radiative region due to the folding of the spoof plasmon polaritons branches. The model is validated with direct numerics and a local analysis allows us to characterize the resonant mechanisms.