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Near field optical properties and surface plasmon resonances on a pair of silver-shell nanocylinder and nanochain waveguides with different core–shell patterns which interact with incident plane wave along chain axis are numerically investigated by using the finite element method. Simulation results show that the peak wavelengths and resonant field enhancements are highly tunable by using the nanoshell particles instead of solid ones, revealing a critical relationship among the wavelengths and illuminated direction of incident light, interparticle spacing, radii, and medium of dielectric holes and the patterns of chain waveguides. Besides, nanochain waveguides with different patterns of core–shell that are operated on resonant multipolar modes can provide higher propagation intensities and the transmission ability can be increased by decreasing the size of nanocylinders along the chain axis.
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The authors are thankful for the financial support from National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC, under Grant number NSC 99-2112-M-231-001-MY3 and NSC-99-2120-M-002-012. They would also like to thank National Center for High-Performance Computing for support by providing computing facility and software.
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Chau, YF., Li, HY., Jiang, ZH. et al. Manipulation of subwavelength optical fields and resonant field enhancements of a silver-shell nanocylinder pair and chain waveguides with different core–shell patterns. J Nanopart Res 13, 3939–3949 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0316-0
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