Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2011-03-31
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
This paper contains 11 pages and 4 figures, and will be published elsewhere
Scientific paper
The Rayleigh-Modal method is used to calculate the electromagnetic field within the grooves of a perfectly conducting, rectangular-shaped 1D diffraction grating. An \emph{enhancement coefficient} ($\eta$) is introduced in order to quantify such an energy concentration. Accordingly, $\eta >$1 means that the amount of electromagnetic energy present within the grooves is larger than that one will have, over the same volume, if the diffraction grating is replaced by a perfectly reflecting mirror. The results in this paper show that $\eta$ can be as large as several decades at certain, often narrow, ranges of wavelengths. However, it reduces to approximately 20% under sunlight illumination. In this latter case, such values are achieved when the \textit{optical spacing} between the grooves $dn$ is greater than 500 nm, where $d$ is the groove spacing and $n$ is the refractive index of the substance within the grooves. For $dn$ smaller than 500 nm the enhancement coefficient turns negligibly small.
Jakas Mario M.
Llopis Francisco
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