Flower shaped gap tuned plasmonic nano-antenna for optical wireless communication

Abstract

In this manuscript the plasmonic flower shaped silver nano dipole antenna is investigated on the silicon dioxide substrate for the optical wireless communication. The nano-circuit modeling of the proposed flower shaped nano dipole antenna is discussed which will enable the design of nano-photonic chips. The resonance tuning of the proposed flower shaped nano antenna is exhibited through end-to-end stacking of the flower cells over a petal of the nanostructure. The various possible structures were designed to tune the frequency in the range from 170 to 271 THz which covers 1550 nm window of the optical communication. The gap tuned flower shaped nano dipole antenna is designed by controlling the optical coupling of the waves in between two dipole arms of the nano-antenna. Further the detailed investigation on the performance of the flower shaped nano dipole antenna is executed through the design parameters such as gap of the nano dipole antenna feed G and radius of the flower cell R. The optimum nano-antenna characteristics which are suitable for the optical wireless communication are observed at the resonance frequencies such as 270, 284.5, 260.5, 226.5 and 209 THz with reflection coefficients −42.17, −42.42, −42.17, −45.20 and −50.33 dB respectively.