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The resonant behavior of linear birefringence and linear dichroism spectra is found in anisotropic optical metamaterials made of noble metal thin films with stripes and rectangular hole nanoapertures forming one- or two-dimensional subwavelength gratings. Differences in effective refractive index and extinction coefficient for linearly polarized eigenstates are increased in spectral range of resonances of local and surface plasmon-polaritons at the normal incidence and reach the values of Δn ≃ 2.5 and Δκ ≃ 2.75, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © M.R. Shcherbakov, P.P. Vabishchevich, M.I. Dobynde, T.V. Dolgova, A.S. Sigov, C.M. Wang, D.P. Tsai, A.A. Fedyanin, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 90, No. 6, pp. 478–482.
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Shcherbakov, M.R., Vabishchevich, P.P., Dobynde, M.I. et al. Plasmonic enhancement of linear birefringence and linear dichroism in anisotropic optical metamaterials. Jetp Lett. 90, 433–437 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009180064
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