This review provides a perspective on the recent developments in the transmission of light
through subwavelength apertures in metal films. The main focus is on the phenomenon of …

The presence of tiny holes in an opaque metal film, with sizes smaller than the wavelength
of incident light, leads to a wide variety of unexpected optical properties such as strongly …

Considered one of the major fields of photonics of the beginning 21 st century, plasmonics
offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new …

Plasmonics allows light to be localized on length scales much shorter than its wavelength,
which makes it possible to integrate photonics and electronics on the nanoscale. Magneto …

This Colloquium analyzes the interaction of light with two-dimensional periodic arrays of
particles and holes. The enhanced optical transmission observed in the latter and the …

In this Letter, we demonstrate experimentally that a patchwork of four metal–insulator–metal
patches leads to an unpolarized wideband omnidirectional infrared absorption. Our structure …

The structure functions g1p and g1n have been measured over the range 0.014< x< 0.9 and
1< Q2< 40 GeV2 using deep-inelastic scattering of 48 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons …

Dielectric and metallic gratings have been studied for more than a century. Nevertheless,
novel optical phenomena and fabrication techniques have emerged recently and have …

The electromagnetic coupling between a two-dimensional grating of resonant gold
nanoparticles and a gold metallic film is investigated. We report on the observation of …

We report nearly perfect optical transmission (87%) through freestanding metallic gratings
with narrow slits, as the experimental demonstration of the theoretical prediction by Porto et …