Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders

In the last few decades, special attention has been paid to the optical response of structures composed of periodic subwavelength slits in thin metallic sheets. Extraordinary transmission and evanescent-to-propagating conversion are two of the main effects that have been most investigated in these s...

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spelling paper:paper_07403224_v34_n12_p2624_Lester2023-06-08T15:44:35Z Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders Cylinders (shapes) Refractive index Electromagnetic resonance Enhanced transmission Extraordinary transmission Inhomogeneous waves Resonant couplings Subwavelength slits Total internal reflections Transmitted intensities Diffraction gratings In the last few decades, special attention has been paid to the optical response of structures composed of periodic subwavelength slits in thin metallic sheets. Extraordinary transmission and evanescent-to-propagating conversion are two of the main effects that have been most investigated in these systems. In this paper, we present an alternative way of enhancing the intensity diffracted by a grating through morphological electromagnetic resonances. Unlike nanoslit arrays, in this system the cavities are formed by periodically distributed chains of metallic subwavelength cylinders, which behave like walls that confine the fields and thus show resonant behavior. The set of cavities is illuminated by an evanescent wave generated by total internal reflection. We show that resonant coupling of cavity modes excited by the inhomogeneous wave produces enhanced transmission of up to 92% and also that the system has the ability of steering most of the transmitted intensity in a particular direction given by the diffraction orders. The results are compared with those obtained from a similar structure formed by periodically distributed perfectly conducting solid walls. © 2017 Optical Society of America. 2017 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_07403224_v34_n12_p2624_Lester http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_07403224_v34_n12_p2624_Lester
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic Cylinders (shapes)
Refractive index
Electromagnetic resonance
Enhanced transmission
Extraordinary transmission
Inhomogeneous waves
Resonant couplings
Subwavelength slits
Total internal reflections
Transmitted intensities
Diffraction gratings
spellingShingle Cylinders (shapes)
Refractive index
Electromagnetic resonance
Enhanced transmission
Extraordinary transmission
Inhomogeneous waves
Resonant couplings
Subwavelength slits
Total internal reflections
Transmitted intensities
Diffraction gratings
Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
topic_facet Cylinders (shapes)
Refractive index
Electromagnetic resonance
Enhanced transmission
Extraordinary transmission
Inhomogeneous waves
Resonant couplings
Subwavelength slits
Total internal reflections
Transmitted intensities
Diffraction gratings
description In the last few decades, special attention has been paid to the optical response of structures composed of periodic subwavelength slits in thin metallic sheets. Extraordinary transmission and evanescent-to-propagating conversion are two of the main effects that have been most investigated in these systems. In this paper, we present an alternative way of enhancing the intensity diffracted by a grating through morphological electromagnetic resonances. Unlike nanoslit arrays, in this system the cavities are formed by periodically distributed chains of metallic subwavelength cylinders, which behave like walls that confine the fields and thus show resonant behavior. The set of cavities is illuminated by an evanescent wave generated by total internal reflection. We show that resonant coupling of cavity modes excited by the inhomogeneous wave produces enhanced transmission of up to 92% and also that the system has the ability of steering most of the transmitted intensity in a particular direction given by the diffraction orders. The results are compared with those obtained from a similar structure formed by periodically distributed perfectly conducting solid walls. © 2017 Optical Society of America.
title Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
title_short Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
title_full Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
title_fullStr Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
title_sort enhanced transmission via cavity modes in gratings formed by subwavelength metallic cylinders
publishDate 2017
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_07403224_v34_n12_p2624_Lester
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_07403224_v34_n12_p2624_Lester
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