Origin of superenhanced light transmission through two-dimensional
subwavelength rectangular hole arrays |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Wulin?JiaEmail author Xiaohan?Liu |
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Institution: | (1) Surface Physics Laboratory and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China |
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Abstract: | Superenhanced light transmission through subwavelength rectangular hole
arrays have been reported and some investigations have been made into the
physical origin of this phenomenon K.J. Klein Koerkamp et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.
92, 183901 (2004)]. In our current work, by performing FDTD (finite
difference in the time domain) numerical simulations, we demonstrate that
mechanism that is different from surface plasmon polaritons set up by the
periodicity at the in-plane metal surfaces may account for this
superenhanced light transmission. We suggest that for arrays of rectangular
holes with small enough width in comparison to the wavelength of the
incident light, standing electromagnetic fields can be set up inside the
cavity by the surface plasmons on the hole walls with its intensity being
substantially enhanced inside the cavity. So resonant cavity-enhanced light
transmission is predominant and responsible for its superenhanced light
transmission. Rectangular holes behave as Fabry-Pérot resonance cavities
except that the frequency of their fundamental modes is restricted by their
TM cutoff frequency. However we believe that both localized surface plasmon
modes and surface plasmon polaritons set up by the periodicity at the
in-plane metal surfaces have their shares in extraordinary optical
transmission of rectangular hole arrays especially when the width of the
rectangular hole is not small enough and the metal film is not thick enough. |
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