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Aperture optical antennas

Optics 2014-05-20 v1

Abstract

This contribution reviews the studies on subwavelength aperture antennas in the optical regime, paying attention to both the fundamental investigations and the applications. Section 2 reports on the enhancement of light-matter interaction using three main types of aperture antennas: single subwavelength aperture, single aperture surrounded by shallow surface corrugations, and subwavelength aperture arrays. A large fraction of nanoaperture applications is devoted to the field of biophotonics to improve molecular sensing, which are reviewed in Section 3. Lastly, the applications towards nano-optics (sources, detectors and filters) are discussed in Section 4.

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@article{arxiv.1405.4432,
  title  = {Aperture optical antennas},
  author = {Jerome Wenger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4432},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Published as chapter in "Optical Antennas," editied by M. Agio qnd A. Alu, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2013)

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