A novel plasmonic waveguide filter design based on three cascaded slot cavities is proposed. The cascaded nanocavities support a united resonant(UR) mode. Light is trapped in the middle nanocavity at telecommunication wavelength(1550 nm) when the UR mode exists. This phenomenon leads to the efficient transmittance and high Q factor of the plasmonic filter. The resonant wavelength and Q factor can be easily modulated by the cavity radii and the waveguide width.
We investigate femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW) in the fabrication of magneto-optical (MO) microstructures. The experimental results show that FDLW can introduce positive refractive index change in the MO materials. With the increase of the writing intensity of femtosecond laser pulses, refractive index change increases, whereas Verdet constant of the damaged area decreases nonlinearly. With suitable writing intensity, we obtain a single-mode waveguide in which Verdet constant is 80% of the bulk MO glass.
