Extraordinary transmission through a single coaxial aperture in a thin metal film.

Autor:	Banzer P; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Guenther-Scharowsky-Str. 1, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany. peter.banzer@mpl.mpg.de, Kindler J, Quabis S, Peschel U, Leuchs G
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Optics express [Opt Express] 2010 May 10; Vol. 18 (10), pp. 10896-904.
DOI:	10.1364/OE.18.010896
Abstrakt:	We investigate experimentally the transmission properties of single sub-wavelength coaxial apertures in thin metal films (t = 110 nm). Enhanced transmission through a single sub-wavelength coaxial aperture illuminated with a strongly focused radially polarized light beam is reported. In our experiments we achieved up to four times enhanced transmission through a single coaxial aperture as compared to a (hollow) circular aperture with the same outer diameter.We attribute this enhancement of transmission to the excitation of a TEM-mode for illumination with radially polarized light inside the single coaxial aperture. A strong polarization contrast is observed between the transmission for radially and azimuthally polarized illumination. Furthermore, the observed transmission through a single coaxial aperture can be strongly reduced if surface plasmons are excited. The experimental results are in good agreement with finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. ((c) 2010 Optical Society of America.)
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