Symmetry Breaking in Oligomer Surface Plasmon Lattice Resonances

Abstract

We describe a novel plasmonic mode engineering, enabled by the structural symmetry of a plasmonic crystal with a metallic oligomer as unit cell. We show how the oligomer symmetry can tailor the scattering directions to spatially overlap with the diffractive orders directions of a plasmonic array. Applied to the color generation field, the presented approach enables the challenging achievement of a broad spectrum of angle-dependent colours since smooth and continuous generation of transmitted vibrant colors, covering both, the cyan-magenta-yellow and the red-green-blue color spaces, is demonstrated, by scattering angle-and polarization-dependent optical response. The addition of a symmetry driven level of control multiplies the possibility of optical information storage, being of potential interest for secured optical information encoding but also for nanophotonic applications, from demultiplexers or signal processing devices to on-chip optical nanocircuitry.

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