One Way Light Transmission through metal membranes
Optics
2011-08-23 v2
Abstract
We propose a new mechanism for irreversibility of light assisted by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). By achieving the different mutual conversion efficiency between the radiation field and the SPPs on the opposite surfaces of metal membrane, the unidirectional transmission is observed in a quite simple asymmetric metallic sub-wavelength structures Ag(15nm)/AAO, in which the difference of the two-way transmittance is large than 50%.
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@article{arxiv.1108.3929,
title = {One Way Light Transmission through metal membranes},
author = {Hai Wang and Yun-Song Zhou and Shan-Shan Zhang and He Wang and Guo-Zhong Zhao and Zhi-Peng Li and Pei-Jie Wang and Hong-Wei Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3929},
year = {2011}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures