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Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Extreme Nanowires and Other 1D Systems
Published on: April 28, 2016
Huygens description of resonance phenomena in subwavelength hole arrays
Cyriaque Genet1, Martin P van Exter, J P Woerdman
1Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. genet@isis-ulp.org
Abstract:
We develop a point-scattering approach to the plane-wave optical transmission of subwavelength metal hole arrays. We present a real-space description instead of the more conventional reciprocal-space description; this naturally produces interfering resonant features in the transmission spectra and makes explicit the tensorial properties of the transmission matrix. We give transmission spectra simulations for both square and hexagonal arrays; these can be evaluated at arbitrary angles and polarizations.
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