Incident-Angle Dependence of Electromagnetic Wave Transmission through a Nano-hole in a Thin Plasmonic Semiconductor Layer

TL;DR

This study investigates how the angle of incidence affects electromagnetic wave transmission through a nano-hole in a thin plasmonic semiconductor layer, revealing interference patterns and their dependence on incident angle and polarization.

Contribution

It introduces a dyadic Green's function formulation that models transmission without metallic boundary conditions, incorporating the semiconductor's plasmonic response and interference effects.

Findings

Interference fringes cluster near the nano-hole and flatten at large distances.

The central transmission maximum follows the incident angle as it increases.

Interference fringe patterns compress and thin with increasing incident angle.

Abstract

This work is focussed on the role of the angle of incidence of an incoming electromagnetic wave in its transmission through a subwavelength nano-hole in a thin semiconductor plasmonic layer. Fully detailed calculations and results are exhibited for $ p$- and $s$-polarizations of the incident wave for a variety of incident angles in the near, middle and far zones of the transmitted radiation. Our dyadic Green's function formulation includes both (1) the electromagnetic field transmitted directly through the $ 2D $ plasmonic layer superposed with (2) the radiation emanating from the nano-hole. Interference fringes due to this superposition are explicitly exhibited. Based on an integral equation formulation, this dyadic Green's function approach does not involve any appeal to metallic boundary conditions. It does incorporate the role of the $ 2D $ plasmon of the semiconductor layer, which is smeared due to its lateral wave number dependence. We find that the interference fringes, which are clustered near the nano-hole, flatten to a uniform level of transmission directly through the sheet alone at large distances from the nano-hole. Furthermore, as the incident angle increases, the axis of the relatively large central transmission maximum through the nano-hole follows it, accompanied by a spatial compression of interference fringe maxima forward of the large central transmission maximum, and a spatial thinning of the fringe maxima behind it.