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Giant field enhancement by funneling effect into sub-wavelength slit-box resonators

Optics 2014-03-11 v1

Abstract

Inspired by the acoustic Helmholtz resonator, we propose a slit-box electromagnetic nanoantenna able to concentrate the energy of an incident beam into surfaces a thousand times smaller than with a classical lens. This design gives birth to giant field intensity enhancement in hot volume, throughout the slit. It reaches 10410^4 in the visible up to 10810^8 in the THz range even with focused beams thanks to an omnidirectional reception. These properties could target applications requiring extreme light concentration, such as SEIRA, non-linear optics and biophotonics.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2198,
  title  = {Giant field enhancement by funneling effect into sub-wavelength slit-box resonators},
  author = {Paul Chevalier and Patrick Bouchon and Riad Haidar and Fabrice Pardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2198},
  year   = {2014}
}