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View SchemaThe role of electromagnetic trapped modes in extraordinary transmission in nanostructured materials
| Authors | A. G. Borisov, F. J. García de Abajo, S. V. Shabanov |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0410272 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410272 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.075408 |
Abstract
We assert that the physics underlying the extraordinary light transmission (reflection) in nanostructured materials can be understood from rather general principles based on the formal scattering theory developed in quantum mechanics. The Maxwell equations in passive (dispersive and absorptive) linear media are written in the form of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation to which the quantum mechanical resonant scattering theory (the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism) is applied. It is demonstrated that the existence of long-lived quasistationary eigenstates of the effective Hamiltonian for the Maxwell theory naturally explains the extraordinary transmission properties observed in various nanostructured materials. Such states correspond to quasistationary electromagnetic modes trapped in the scattering structure. Our general approach is also illustrated with an example of the zero-order transmission of the TE-polarized light through a metal-dielectric grating structure. Here a direct on-the-grid solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations demonstrates the significance of resonances (or trapped modes) for extraordinary light transmissio
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.71.075408",
"title": "The role of electromagnetic trapped modes in extraordinary transmission in nanostructured materials",
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