Tunable optical filter based on one-dimensional periodic structure composed of SiO2 and anisotropic metamaterial (AMM) with a liquid crystal defect layer sandwiched by two SiO2

Abstract

This paper reports the tunable transmission properties of asymmetric one-dimensional periodic structure (1DPS) composed of SiO2 and anisotropic metamaterial (AMM) layers with defect of liquid crystal (LC) sandwiched by two SiO2 layers, i.e., (SiO[Formula: see text]AMM)[Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text]LC[Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text](SiO[Formula: see text]AMM)3 using the transfer matrix method (TMM). We have studied the optical properties of the periodic structure (SiO[Formula: see text]AMM)3 [Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text]LC[Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text](SiO[Formula: see text]AMM)3 with a different incident angle of the electromagnetic wave for particular director angle of LC molecules. The tunability of the transmission property of the considered 1DPS shows that the transmittance depends upon the orientation of LC molecules. Such an asymmetric periodic structure (1DPS) composed of SiO2 and AMM with a defect of LC sandwiched by two SiO2 layers, (SiO2 [Formula: see text]AMM)[Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text]LC[Formula: see text]SiO[Formula: see text](SiO[Formula: see text]AMM)3, may be used as a tunable optical filter and bi-stable device.