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Determination of the Excitation and Coupling Rates Between Light Emitters and Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Published on: July 21, 2018
Surface plasmon excitation on a single subwavelength hole in a metallic sheet
Evgeny Popov1, Nicolas Bonod, Michel Nevière
1Institut Fresnel, Case 161, Unité Mixte-de Recherche 6133, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de St-Jérôme, 13397 Marseille 20, France. e.popov@fresnel.fr
Abstract:
The diffraction of light by a single subwavelength hole in a highly conductive metallic sheet is analyzed with a recently developed differential theory that is able to plot the nearly electromagnetic field. Using rigorous electromagnetic and phenomenological analysis, we show that a single subwavelength hole can excite surface-plasmon resonance that contributes greatly to extraordinary transmission.

