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Optics express 17, 8 (2009) 6770-6781
Absorption of light by extremely shallow metallic gratings: metamaterial behavior
E. Popov 1, Stefan Enoch 1, Nicolas Bonod 1
(09/04/2009)

Extremely shallow lamellar metallic gratings are shown to totally absorb incident light inside a wide angular interval. The full absorption still holds at the homogeneization limit when the period tends toward zero. It is shown that a lamellar grating, illuminated in normal incidence and in transerve magnetic polarization with a period lower than 1/100 of the incident wavelength behaves like a dielectric with a high refractive index. The full absorption is then not due to the excitation of surface plasmon but either to Fabry-Perot resonance or Brewster effect, depending on the corrugated layer thickness.
1 :  Institut FRESNEL (IF)
CNRS : UMR6133 – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III – Ecole Centrale de Marseille
Sciences de l'ingénieur/Optique / photonique
Diffraction and gratings – Optics at surfaces – Surface plasmons