Multiple hybrid Spp-Tamm modes in Ag grating/DBR microcavity

High confinement of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) have important applications in many aspects. However, access to high-Q resonant modes in metal cavity have many difficulties because of high Ohmic losses, large radiative losses and limited cavity designs. The Tamm mode is another surface plasmonic mode which has a high Q value but poor confinement. Here, we present a grating Tamm structure in which both nonradiative and radiative damping are suppressed, enabling excitation of high-Q and high confinement of hybrid SPP-Tamm mode. Theoretical analysis and simulations show that the proposed structure supports six resonance modes. By manipulating the geometric parameters of the metal grating, the multiple hybrid SPP-Tamm resonances could be well-defined and tuned with wavelength tuning sensitivity up to 1nm. These results are promising for potential applications such as multiplexing, multi-frequency sensing and imaging.