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The Focusing and Talbot Effect of Periodic Arrays of Metallic Nanoapertures in High-Index Medium

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Three finite-sized two-dimensional (2D) periodic arrays of metallic nanoapertures with the shape of nanowave, nanohole, and nanodot have been developed. Using water as an output medium, although the operating wavelengths are larger than the array period, both the focusing and far-field plasmon Talbot effect are experimentally observed, showing a good agreement with the 2D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation results. The focusing performance in both cases, with the output medium of air and of water, is compared. A detailed investigation of the plasmon Talbot revivals reveals that they are composed of subwavelength hotspots with the size of ∼0.5λ distributed in the same array period as the original device. Three-dimensional FDTD simulations prove that the existence of surface plasmons (SPs) exhibits an enhanced optical transmission at some SP resonant wavelengths dependent on the output medium. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the Talbot revivals provide a high-resolution mean to distinguish the slight geometric nonuniformity in periodic nanostructures.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Lars Friedrich for his help in performing the first optical characterization. We acknowledge the financial support by the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. This work was partially carried out with the support of the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (www.knmf.kit.edu), a Helmholtz Research Infrastructure at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (www.kit.edu).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Systems for Aerospace (Ministry of Education), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, People’s Republic of China

    Yiting Yu

  2. Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, 76344, Germany

    Delphine Chassaing & Torsten Scherer

  3. Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Photonics, Department of Microsystems Engineering–IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110, Germany

    Benjamin Landenberger

  4. Laboratory for Micro-optics, Department of Microsystems Engineering–IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110, Germany

    Hans Zappe

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Yu, Y., Chassaing, D., Scherer, T. et al. The Focusing and Talbot Effect of Periodic Arrays of Metallic Nanoapertures in High-Index Medium. Plasmonics 8, 723–732 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9463-0

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