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Héctor I Pérez1, Claudio I Valencia, Eugenio R Méndez
1División de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, Ensenada, B.C. 22860, México.
Abstract:
We study the transmission of diffuse light through thick slits. For perfectly conducting slits and in-plane s-polarized illumination, the transmittance curves present a staircaselike behavior as a function of the aperture width, where the steps mark the appearance of new propagation modes. In contrast, with p-polarized illumination the transmittance increases linearly with the aperture width, with only some perturbations in the positions that correspond to the appearance of new modes. Out-of-plane incidence and more realistic assumptions about the slit, such as finite conductivity and roughness, are also discussed.
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