Electrically tunable Fano-type resonance of an asymmetric metal wire pair

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the electrically tunable Fano-type resonance of asymmetric metal wire pair loaded with varactor diodes. It is illustrated that Fano-type transmission spectrum with high quality factor Q appears as a result of interference between the dipole and quadrupole modes. The ohmic loss of series resistance in varactor diode makes major contribution to absorption. At the Fano-type resonance frequency, both the two metal wires exhibit the strongest electric resonance simultaneously, and the Fano-type resonance manifests a large group delay. As the bias voltage ranges from 0 V to 8 V, the Fano-type resonance frequency exhibits a prominent blueshift of 0.16 GHz and the transmission experiences a modulation with a modulation depth of 97%. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America