Enhanced mid-infrared transmission through nanoscale metallic coaxial-aperture arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4406-4413

  Fan, Wenjun ^a   Zhang, Shuang ^a   Malloy, K J ^a   Brueck, S R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMA WAVES; POLARIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COAXIAL-APERTURE ARRAYS; MID-INFRARED TRANSMISSION; PATTERN-DEFINITION TECHNIQUES; RESONANCE WAVELENGTH;

INFRARED TRANSMISSION;

EID: 22744445602     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004406     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. T. W. Ebbesen, H. J. Lezec, H. F. Ghaemi, T. Thio and P. A. Wolff, Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays," Nature (London) 391, 667-669 (1998).
2. H.J. Lezec, A. Degiron, E. Eevaux, R.A. Linke, L. Martin-Moreno, F.J. Garcia-Vidal and T.W. Ebbesen, "Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture," Science 297, 820 822 (2002).
3. W. L. Barnes, W. A. Murray, J. Dintinger, E. Devaux and T. W. Ebbesen, "Surface plasmon polaritons and their role in the enhanced transmission of light through periodic arrays of subwavelength holes in a metal film," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 107401 (2004).
4. H. J. Lezec and T. Thio, "Diffracted evanescent wave model for enhanced and suppressed optical transmission through subwavelength hole arrays," Opt. Express 12, 3629-3651 (2004), http://www.opticsexpress.org/ abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-16-3629.
5. A. Degiron and T. W. Ebbesen, '"The role of localized surface plasmon modes in the enhanced transmission of periodic subwavelength apertures," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, S90-S96 (2005).
6. H. F. Schouten, N. Kuzmin, G. Dubois, T. D. Visser, G. Gbur, P. F. A. Alkemade, H. Blok, G. W. 't Hooft, D Lenstra and E. R. Eliel, "Plasmon-Assisted two-slit transmission: Young's experiment revisited," Phys, Rev. Lett. 94, 053901 (2005)
7. A. Nahata, R. A. Linke, T. Ishi and K. Ohashi, "linhanced nonlinear optical conversion from a periodically nanostructured metal film," Opt. Lett. 28, 423-425 (2003).
8. W. L. Barnes, A. Dereux and T. W. Ebbesen, "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics," Nature (London) 424, 824-830 (2003).
9. F. I. Baida and D. Van Labeke, "Light transmission by subwavelength annular aperture arrays in metallic films," Opt. Commun. 209, 17-22 (2002).
10. A. Moreau, G. Granet, F. I. Baida and D. Van Labeke, "Light transmission by subwavelength square coaxial aperture arrays in metallic films," Opt. Express 11, 1131-1136 (2003), http://www.opticsexpress.org/ abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-10-1131.
11. W. Fan, S. Zhang, B. Minhas, K. J. Malloy and S. R. J. Brueck, Enhanced infrared transmission through subwavelength coaxial metallic arrays," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 033902 (2005).
12. A. Krishnan, T. Thio, T. J. Kim, H. J. Lezec, T. W. Ebbesen, P. A. Wolff, J. Pendry, L. Martin-Moreno, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, "Evanescently coupled resonance in surface plasmon enhanced transmission," Opt. Commun. 200, 1-7 (2001).
13. S. R. J. Brueck, S. H. Zaidi, X. Chcn and X. Zhang, "Interferometric lithography - from periodic arrays to arbitrary patterns," Microelectron. Eng. 42, 145-148 (1998).
14. C. Genet, M. P. Van Exter and J. P. Woerdman, "Fano-type interpretation of red shifts and red tails in hole array transmission spectra," Opt. Commun. 225, 331-336 (2003).
15. F. I. Baida, D. Van Labeke, G. Granet, A. Moreau and A. Belkhir, "Origin of the super-enhanced light transmission through a 2-13 metallic annular aperture array: a study of photonic bands," Appl. Phys. B 79, 1-8 (2004).
16. N. Marcuvitz., Waveguide handbook, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951).