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Chaoyang Wei1, Shijie Liu, Degang Deng
1Research and Development Center of Optical Thin Film Coatings, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. siomwei@mail.siom.ac.cn
Abstract:
Electric fields inside guided-mode resonance filters (GMRFs) may be intensified by resonance effects. The electric field enhancement is investigated in two GMRFs: one is resonant at normal incidence, the other at oblique incidence. It is shown that the two GMRFs exhibit different behaviors in their electric enhancement. Differences between the electric field distributions of the two GMRFs arise because coupling between counterpropagating modes occurs in the first case. It is also shown that the order of the electric field of maximum amplitude can be controlled by modulation of the dielectric constant of the grating.
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