Light trapping by arbitrarily thin cavities

Simple plasmonic multilayers are found to perfectly trap electromagnetic waves around specific incidence directions, regardless of the sample thickness. Such a counterintuitive feature is acquired via increasing unboundedly the effective path length of the ray into the film with proper tilt of the o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tilek Zhumabek, Constantinos Valagiannopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-12-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043349