Structural-configurated magnetic plasmon bands in connected ring chains

Magnetic resonance coupling between connected split ring resonators (SRRs) and magnetic plasmon (MP) excitations in the connected SRR chains were theoretically studied. By changing the connection configuration, two different coupling behaviors were observed, and therefore two kinds of MP bands were formed in the connected ring chains accordingly. From the extracted dispersion properties of MPs, forward and backward characteristics of the guided waves are well exhibited corresponding to the homo- and hetero-connected chains. Notably, thanks to the conductive coupling the revealed MP waves both have wide bandwidth even starting from the zero frequency. These results are suggested to provide instructions to build new kinds of subwavelength waveguides. (c) 2009 Optical Society of America