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Tunnel Light Through a Continuous Optically Thick Metal Film Utilizing Higher Order Magnetic Plasmon Resonance

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In this letter, we investigate the extraordinary optical transmission behavior of a flat continuous metal film sandwiched by magnetic plasmonic structures. A new mechanism by utilizing higher order magnetic plasmon resonance is proposed to enhance the transmission. Numerical simulation results show that 80 % electromagnetic energy can be transmitted through the middle 50-nm-thick continuous gold film in near-infrared regime. The excitation of the second-order magnetic plasmons and the propagating surface plasmons, as well as the interaction between them accounts for such a high transmission. The interaction of magnetic plasmons and surface plasmons leads to new hybrid modes, and the coupled oscillator model is introduced to analyze this hybridization. This work extends the application range of higher order magnetic plasmons and may have potential in transparent electrode and electromagnetic energy transfer applications.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61178047, 61575006).

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    Zongpeng Wang, Yumin Hou, Wei Li, Xu Li & Anwei Cai

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Wang, Z., Hou, Y., Li, W. et al. Tunnel Light Through a Continuous Optically Thick Metal Film Utilizing Higher Order Magnetic Plasmon Resonance. Plasmonics 11, 1445–1450 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0195-4

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