Bandwidth tunable guided-mode resonance filter using contact coupled gratings at oblique incidence

A novel bandwidth tunable guided-mode resonance filter (GMRF) is proposed based on the contact coupled gratings (CCGs) with the absentee layers at oblique incidence. The design principle of the CCGs with double absentee layers is presented. The lateral shift of the CCGs changes the magnetic field distributions of the waveguide mode in the grating cavity and the surface-confined mode at the cover/grating interface thus facilitates the dynamic control of both the spectral and angular bandwidth of the GMRF. The resonance locations are almost immune to the variation of the lateral shift of the CCGs. The sideband level of the GMRF is almost unaffected by the lateral shift due to the Brewster AR effect. The resonance peak red-shifts quasi-linearly as the incident angle is increased, and the resonance wavelength can be selected by merely tuning the incident angle. The tunable ranges of both the spectral and angular bandwidth can be significantly enhanced by increasing the refractive-index contrast. Low-sideband reflection with controllable bandwidth at 650 nm is designed to demonstrate this concept.