Systematic study on visible light collimation by nanostructured slits in the metal surface

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/20/3/037806

Abstract We present a systematic experimental investigation on visible light collimation by a nanostructured slit flanked with a pair of periodic array of grooves in gold thin film. A wide variety of aspects are considered, such as the polarization state, the transport path of incident light, the groove–groove spacing, the groove width and depth. Our results clearly show that the relationship between the collimation wavelength and the periodicity of the slit-groove structure accords well with the surface plasmon dispersion model proposed by previous researchers. Furthermore, the surface plasmon wave phase retardation effect induced by the surface structure is also verified via the measurement for samples with different groove widths and depths. These results indicate that the detailed geometry of the groove structure has obvious impacts on the collimation effect and the angular distribution of the diffraction light in the subwavelength plasmonic system.

Keywords: surface plasmon collimation

Received: 28 September 2010
Revised: 22 November 2010
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PACS:	78.66.-w	(Optical properties of specific thin films)
	42.25.Fx	(Diffraction and scattering)
	42.79.Dj	(Gratings)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60736041 and 10874238), and the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China (Grant No. 2007CB613205).

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Fu Jin-Xin(傅晋欣), Hua Yi-Lei(华一磊), Chen Yu-Hui(陈宇辉), Liu Rong-Juan(刘荣鹃), Li Jia-Fang(李家方), and Li Zhi-Yuan(李志远) Systematic study on visible light collimation by nanostructured slits in the metal surface 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 037806

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