Dual-band near-infrared plasmonic perfect absorber assisted by strong coupling between bright-dark nanoresonators

•Achieve a single band near-infrared absorber.•Realize dual-band plasmonic nearly-perfect absorber.•Two absorption peaks can be controlled.•Absorption peaks are nearly insensitive to the change of the incident angle.

In this paper, a plasmonic structure with subwavelength air groove periodically etched on metallic surface is designed and numerically investigated by using Finite Element Method (FEM). The simulation results reveal that the transverse magnetic (TM) polarized incident wave can be perfectly absorbed by the air grooves due to the metallic ohmic loss of Fabry–Pérot resonance. More importantly, by introducing an additional nanoresonator to form a pair of bright-dark resonators, a dual-band plasmonic nearly-perfect absorber can be achieved and the original single absorption peak splits into two absorption peaks. Moreover, the resonance wavelengths correspond to the absorption peaks can be manipulated by varying the geometric parameters. Furthermore, the proposed absorber is found to have large angle tolerance. This dual-band and angle independent near-infrared plasmonic perfect absorber has potential applications in infrared technology and devices, such as imaging devices, thermal bolometers, solar cells and wavelength selective radiators.