Scientists actively control strongly coupled plasmonic resonators.
Image credit: Gregory C. Dyer, Sandia National Laboratory
This image represents the far infrared energy absorbed by a pair of plasmonic resonators embedded in a semiconductor. When the adjacent plasmonic resonators are independently tuned, a complex pattern of absorption peaks emerges indicating strong resonant coupling.
Tunable Plasmonic Crystals Induced from a Two Dimensional Electron Gas