Rapidly tunable, narrow-band infrared filter arrays

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PATENT NO 10393933
APP PUB NO 20170276848A1
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15624117

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Tunable filters can use Fano metasurface designs having extremely narrow transmission bands. The Fano metasurface can comprise dielectric or semiconductor materials and can produce transmission bands with quality factors well in excess of 1000—at least a factor of 50 greater than typical metamaterial-based infrared resonances. Numerical simulations of these metasurfaces show that the spectral position of the passband can be changed by slightly changing the position of a small dielectric perturbation block placed within the near-field of the resonator by using simple electromechanical actuation architectures that allow for such motion. An array of independently tunable narrowband infrared filters can thereby be fabricated that only requires deep-subwavelength motions of perturbing objects in the resonator's near-field.

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NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA LLCP O BOX 5800 MS-0161 ALBUQUERQUE NM 87185-0161

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Brener, Igal Albuquerque, US 23 203
Burckel, David Bruce Albuquerque, US 12 52
Campione, Salvatore Albuquerque, US 9 47
Resnick, Paul J Albuquerque, US 28 283
Sinclair, Michael B Albuquerque, US 32 888

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