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Coupling of waveguide and surface modes in enhanced transmission through stacking gratings

Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 091101 (2006); doi:10.1063/1.2338796

Published 28 August 2006

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King-Yan Fong and P. M. Hui
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
The physics of enhanced transmission through two metallic gratings stacked one on top of another with a lateral shift is studied. Full electromagnetic calculations via the method of rigorous coupled-wave analysis show that enhanced transmission may result even when the slits in one grating are covered by the other. Despite the channel of waveguide mode is blocked, the coupling of strongly excited surface modes in one grating to the waveguide mode in another leads to an enhanced transmission which could even be larger than that in the case of two stacking gratings unshifted with respect to one another. ©2006 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 1 June 2006; accepted 3 July 2006; published 28 August 2006
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 78.66.Bz
    Optical properties of metals and metallic alloys (thin films)
  • 78.68.+m
    Optical properties of surfaces
  • 73.20.Mf
    Collective excitations (surface/interface states) including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations
  • 42.79.Dj
    Gratings
  • YEAR: 2006

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