title: Enhanced confined light transmission by single subwavelength apertures in metallic films.
abstract: The diffraction of light that emerges from a metallic circular aperture is studied. Near- and far-field results are presented. Spectral angular transmitted intensities are performed versus the incident wavelength for four kinds of aperture. It is shown that, for a definite configuration, a large enhancement of transmission--compared with the basic case of a single hole--occurs combined with a spectacular angular confinement of light. Such effects are, for example, of great interest in optical near-field microscopy for which the probe is a nanosource.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Optique P. M. Duffieux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6603, Institut de Microtechniques de Franche-Comté, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Cedex 25030, France. fbaida@univ-fcomte.fr
authors.forename: Fadi Issam
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Baida
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van Labeke
authors.forename: Brahim
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guizal