Design tips of nanoapertures with strong field enhancement and proposal of novel L-shaped aperture

Jiying Xu; Tiejun Xu; Jia Wang; Qian Tian

doi:10.1117/1.1825446

1 January 2005 Design tips of nanoapertures with strong field enhancement and proposal of novel L-shaped aperture

Jiying Xu, Tiejun Xu, Jia Wang, Qian Tian

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 1, 018001 (January 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1825446

Abstract

We summarize some design tips and design procedures of nanoapertures with strong field enhancement, based on the theoretical calculations and analyses of near-field distributions of unconventional C apertures and bow-tie apertures by a finite-difference time-domain method. A novel L-shaped aperture is proposed and further validates the proposed design rule. As a result, a 15×15-nm full width half maximum spot forms in the light exit plane of the L aperture. Its intensity maximum enhancement reaches a factor of about 568 and the power throughput is bigger than unity. The mechanisms of electromagnetic field enhancement are preliminarily analyzed. This unconventional nanoaperture is likely to be directly used as an exit aperture of very small aperture lasers, or as an unattached shield, to produce a subwavelength light source with high transmission.

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Jiying Xu, Tiejun Xu, Jia Wang, and Qian Tian "Design tips of nanoapertures with strong field enhancement and proposal of novel L-shaped aperture," Optical Engineering 44(1), 018001 (1 January 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1825446

Published: 1 January 2005

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