Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2631-2648

  Zakharian, A R ^a   Mansuripur, M ^a   Moloney, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METALLIC FILMS; MONOCHROMATORS; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIFFRACTION THEORY; ELLIPTICAL APERTURES; PLANE WAVES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4644344812     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002631     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (7th edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1999).
2. H. A. Bethe, "Theory of diffraction by small holes," Phys. Rev. 66, 163 (1944).
3. A. Roberts, "Electromagnetic theory of diffraction by a circular aperture in a thick, perfectly conducting screen," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 1970-83 (1987).
4. T. Thio, K. M. Pellerin, R. A. Linke, H. J. Lezec, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Enhanced light transmission through a single subwavelength aperture," Opt. Lett. 26, 1972-74 (2001).
5. J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (2nd edition, Wiley, New York, 1975).
6. A. Taflove and S. C. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics (Artech House 2000).
7. Jin Au Kong, Electromagnetic Wave Theory (EMW Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000).
8. J. A. Porto, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and J. B. Pendry, "Transmission resonances on metallic gratings with very narrow slits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2845-48 (1999).
9. Q. Cao and P. Lalanne, "Negative role of surface plasmons in the transmission of metallic gratings with very narrow slits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 57403 (2002).
10. X. Shi, L. Hesselink, and R. L. Thornton, "Ultrahigh light transmission through a C-shaped nanoaperture," Opt. Lett. 28, 1320-22 (2003).
11. L. Novotny, D. W. Pohl, P. Regli, "Light propagation through nanometer-sized structures: the two-dimensional-aperture scanning near-field optical microscope," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, No. 6, 1768-79 (2003).
12. F. J. Garcia de Abajo, "Light transmission through a single cylindrical hole in a metallic film," Opt. Express 10, 1475-84 (2002), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-25-1475.