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Extraordinary THz Transmission with a Small Beam Spot: The Leaky Wave Mechanism. / Navarro-Cía, Miguel; Pacheco-Peña, Víctor; Kuznetsov, Sergei A. et al.
In: Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 6, No. 8, 1701312, 19.04.2018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Extraordinary THz Transmission with a Small Beam Spot: The Leaky Wave Mechanism
AU - Navarro-Cía, Miguel
AU - Pacheco-Peña, Víctor
AU - Kuznetsov, Sergei A.
AU - Beruete, Miguel
PY - 2018/4/19
Y1 - 2018/4/19
N2 - The discovery of extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) through patterned metallic foils in the late 1990s was decisive for the development of plasmonics and cleared the path to employ small apertures for a variety of interesting applications all along the electromagnetic spectrum. However, a typical drawback often found in practical EOT structures is the large size needed to obtain high transmittance peaks. Consequently, practical EOT arrays are usually illuminated using an expanded (mimicking a plane wave) beam. Here, it is shown with numerical and experimental results in the THz range that high transmittance peaks can be obtained even with a reduced illumination spot exciting a small number of holes, provided that the structure has a sufficient number of lateral holes out of the illumination spot. These results shed more light on the prominent role of leaky waves in the underlying physics of EOT and have a direct impact on potential applications.
AB - The discovery of extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) through patterned metallic foils in the late 1990s was decisive for the development of plasmonics and cleared the path to employ small apertures for a variety of interesting applications all along the electromagnetic spectrum. However, a typical drawback often found in practical EOT structures is the large size needed to obtain high transmittance peaks. Consequently, practical EOT arrays are usually illuminated using an expanded (mimicking a plane wave) beam. Here, it is shown with numerical and experimental results in the THz range that high transmittance peaks can be obtained even with a reduced illumination spot exciting a small number of holes, provided that the structure has a sufficient number of lateral holes out of the illumination spot. These results shed more light on the prominent role of leaky waves in the underlying physics of EOT and have a direct impact on potential applications.
KW - continuous-wave spectroscopy
KW - extraordinary transmission
KW - leaky wave mode
KW - terahertz
KW - time-domain spectroscopy
KW - APERTURES
KW - SUBWAVELENGTH HOLE ARRAYS
KW - LIGHT
KW - MILLIMETER-WAVE
KW - ANTENNA
KW - OPTICAL-TRANSMISSION
KW - METASURFACES
KW - FILMS
KW - ENHANCED TRANSMISSION
KW - CIRCUIT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042377088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/adom.201701312
DO - 10.1002/adom.201701312
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042377088
VL - 6
JO - Advanced Optical Materials
JF - Advanced Optical Materials
SN - 2195-1071
IS - 8
M1 - 1701312
ER -
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