Increased light gathering capacity of sub-wavelength conical metallic apertures

Mohit Diwekar; Steve Blair; Mark Davis

doi:10.1117/1.3357301

1 February 2010 Increased light gathering capacity of sub-wavelength conical metallic apertures

Mohit Diwekar, Steve Blair, Mark Davis

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 043504 (February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3357301

Abstract

We study light transmission through individual and arrays of sub-wavelength metallic apertures of conical shape as a function of their taper angle. With a fixed aperture size at the substrate, there is a dramatic increase in light throughput with increasing taper angle. Similar behaviors hold when considering the intensity enhancement inside the aperture near the substrate interface, where more than four-fold increase can be obtained. When arranged in regular arrays, apertures can interact via surface waves, creating distinct minima and maxima in light transmission and intensity enhancement. The effect of aperture taper is also to dramatically increase light transmission and intra-aperture intensity, but with a red shift in the maxima and negligible shift in the minima. The use of conical apertures should improve the efficiency of nonlinear optical processes as well as applications of light harvesting, such as biomolecule detection.

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Mohit Diwekar, Steve Blair, and Mark Davis "Increased light gathering capacity of sub-wavelength conical metallic apertures," Journal of Nanophotonics 4(1), 043504 (1 February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3357301

Published: 1 February 2010

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