The invention discloses a
surface plasmon switch, which belongs to the technical field of micro-nano photoelectron, and comprises a glass substrate, a
gold film is arranged on the glass substrate, the
gold film is provided with asymmetric slits, the slits comprise small grooves and large grooves, PMMA polymers are arranged in the small grooves and on the top surface of the
gold film,
polyimide orientation
layers are arranged on two sides in the large grooves, and the
surface plasmon switch is arranged on the surface of the glass substrate. The other part in the large groove is provided with a
liquid crystal layer, the gold films on the two sides of the slit are isolated, insulated and disconnected, external
voltage is arranged on the gold films on the two sides of the slit, the
liquid crystal layer is located in an
electric field formed by the external
voltage, incident light is excited to be normally incident from one side of the glass substrate, and the
refractive index of the
liquid crystal layer is changed by switching and adjusting the external
voltage. Therefore, the on-off state of the
surface plasmon switch is controlled. The surface
plasmon switch provided by the invention is simple in structure, good in switching performance, convenient to implement, rapid in response, beneficial to small integration and high in practicability.