Plasmon-induced transparency with detuned ultracompact Fabry-Perot resonators in integrated plasmonic devices

We demonstrate the realization of on-chip plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in integrated plasmonic devices using detuned Fabry-Perot resonators aperture-side-coupled to a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide, with the transmission peak occurring at the intermediate wavelength. Strong MIM mode confinement along with localized side-coupling allows one to realize subwavelength photonic components with EIT-like transmission. Numerical results show that MIM components exhibiting pronounced EIT-like spectra in near infrared with the footprint of < 0.15 mu m(2) and group index of similar to 26 can be designed. (C)2011 Optical Society of America