Electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption in plasmonic metasurfaces based on near-field coupling

We theoretically investigate optical properties of a plasmonic metasurface consisting of a dipolar wire as the bright antenna stacked above a quadrupolar wire as the dark antenna. It is demonstrated that by adjusting the lateral displacement between the two resonators, the spectral feature of the metasurface can be evolved from the plasmonic electromagnetically-induced transparency to electromagnetically-induced absorption. The extracted physical parameters based on the two-coupled-oscillator model reveal that the near-field coupling strength plays a key role for the transition behavior in the plasmonic metasurface. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.