Subwavelength diffraction management

Matteo Conforti (1) , Massimiliano Guasoni (1) , Costantino de Angelis (1)

1 Department of Information Engineering [Brescia]

We study light propagation in nanoscale periodic structures composed of dielectric and metal in the visible range. We demonstrate that diffraction can be tailored both in magnitude and in sign by varying the geometric features of the waveguides. Diffraction management on a subwavelength scale is demonstrated by numerical solution of Maxwell equations in frequency domain.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Matteo Conforti, Massimiliano Guasoni, Costantino de Angelis. Subwavelength diffraction management. Optics Letters, 2008, 33 (22), pp.2662-2664. ⟨10.1364/OL.33.002662⟩. ⟨hal-02397799⟩