Near field and far field scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by one-dimensional surface defects

Details Near field and far field scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by one-dimensional surface defects Near field and far field scattering of surface plasmon polaritons by one-dimensional surface defects

1999-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904347v1

Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 8359-8367

Physics

Condensed Matter

REVTeX 3.1, 10 pages with 9 EPS figures (epsf macro)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.8359

A rigorous formulation for the scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) from a one-dimensional surface defect of any shape that yields the electromagnetic field in the vacuum half-space above the vacuum-metal interface is developed by the use of an impedance boundary condition. The electric and magnetic near fields, the angular distribution of the far-field radiation into vacuum due to SPP-photon coupling, and the SPP reflection and transmission coefficients are calculated by numerically solving the k-space integral equation upon which the formulation is based. In particular, we consider Gaussian-shaped defects and study the dependence of the above mentioned physical quantities on their 1/e half-width a and height h. SPP reflection is significant for narrow defects; maximum reflection (plasmon mirrors) is achieved for a~lambda/10. For increasing defect widths, protuberances and indentations behave differently. The former give rise to a monotonic increase of radiation at the expense of SPP transmission for increasing defect half-width. Indentations exhibit a significant increase of radiation (decrease of SPP transmission) for half-widths of the order of or smaller than the wavelength, but tend to total SPP transmission in an oscillatory manner upon further increasing the half-width. Light-emitters might thus be associated with either wide indentations, or protuberances with widths that are of the order of or smaller than the wavelength.

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