Influence of nanoscale cutoff in random self-affine fractal silver surfaces on the excitation of localized optical modes.
We report rigorous numerical calculations of the near field scattered from rough, one-dimensional self-affine fractal silver surfaces. We show that fractal lower-scale cutoff (decreased to the order of tens of nanometers) has a strong effect on excitation and strength of localized optical modes, leading to very large enhancements of the intensity (larger than 10(4)) and fluctuations of the electric field.
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Sánchez-Gil
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García-Ramos
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Méndez