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Surface plasmons enhance optical transmission through subwavelength holes
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Optically thick metal films perforated with a periodic array of subwavelength holes show exceptional transmission properties. The zero-order transmission spectra exhibit well-defined maxima and minima of which the positions are determined by the geometry of the hole array. We show that the minima are the collection of loci for Wood's anomaly, which occurs when a diffracted beam becomes tangent to the film, and that the maxima are the result of a resonant excitation of surface plasmons (SP's). SP's from both surfaces of the metal film are apparent in the dispersion diagram, independent of which side of the film is illuminated, indicating an anomalously strong coupling between the two sides. This leads to wavelength-selective transmission with efficiencies that are about 1000 times higher than that expected for subwavelength holes.
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- Authors
- Ghaemi, H. F., Thio, T., Grupp, D. E., Ebbesen, T. W., & Lezec, H. J.
- Venue
- Physical Review B
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1998-09-15
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 6779-6782
- ISSN
- 0163-1829 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-3795
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- W2022722944
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- 15.56
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- en
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