Surface plasmon transmission through discontinuous conducting surfaces: Plasmon amplitude modulation by grazing scattered fields

L. A. Mayoral-Astorga; J. A. Gaspar-Armenta; F. Ramos-Mendieta

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Surface plasmon transmission through discontinuous conducting surfaces: Plasmon amplitude modulation by grazing scattered fields

L. A. Mayoral-Astorga, J. A. Gaspar-Armenta, F. Ramos-Mendieta

Departamento de Investigación en Física

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We have studied numerically the diffraction of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) when it encounters a wide multi-wavelength slit in conducting films. As a jump process a SPP is excited beyond the slit by wave scattering at the second slit edge. The exciting radiation is produced when the incident SPP collapses at the first slit edge. We have found that the transmitted SPP supports inherent and unavoidable interference with grazing scattered radiation; the spatial modulation extends to the fields in the diffraction region where a series of low intensity spots arises. We demonstrate that the SPP generated on the second slab depends on the frequency but not on the wave vector of the collapsed SPP; a SPP is transmitted even when the two metals forming the slit are different. The numerical results were obtained using the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method with a grid size λ/100.

Original language	English
Article number	045316
Journal	AIP Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948465
State	Published - 1 Apr 2016

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