Spatially and polarization resolved plasmon mediated transmission through continuous metal films
Abstract
The experimental demonstration and characterization is made of the plasmon-mediated resonant transmission through an embedded undulated continuous thin metal film under normal incidence. 1D undulations are shown to enable a spatially resolved polarisation filtering whereas 2D undulations lead to spatially resolved, polarization independent transmission. Whereas the needed submicron microstructure lends itself in principle to CD-like low-cost mass replication by means of injection moulding and embossing, the present paper demonstrates the expected transmission effects on experimental models based on metal-coated photoresist gratings. The spectral and angular dependence in the neighbourhood of resonance are investigated and the question of the excess losses exhibited by surface plasmons is discussed
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@article{arxiv.0907.1749,
title = {Spatially and polarization resolved plasmon mediated transmission through continuous metal films},
author = {Y. Jourlin and S. Tonchev and A. V. Tishchenko and C. Pedri and C. Veillas and O. Parriaux and A. Last and Y. Lacroute},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1749},
year = {2009}
}