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We fabricate a series of square-lattice subwavelength circular, rectangular, and trapezoidal air-hole arrays drilled in opaque gold thin films and measured the transmission spectra of light passing through these metallic nanostructures in the near-infrared range. The measured results show strong dependence of extraordinary optical transmission on the lattice constant, hole size, and hole shape. The wavelengths of the transmission peaks and dips are mainly determined by the lattice constant. However, they are also influenced by the parameters of the hole size and hole shape. The experimental data agree well with numerical calculation results by means of a plane-wave transfer-matrix method when the detailed geometry of the air holes is fully considered. The results indicate that the extraordinary light transmission through subwavelength metallic nanostructures of air-hole arrays are governed by excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on the metal surface and their scattering by periodic air-hole arrays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simulated transmission spectra for tapered fibers with no taper, one taper and two tapers in the near infrared wavelength range, calculated by Finite-Difference-Time-Domain method are currently presented. Transmission peak positions tend to shift to the shorter wavelength when the taper deformation is added to the fiber or the taper width gets narrower. The thickness sensitivity for the tapered structures with different taper thicknesses is about 2.28e-3 nm·µm−1. There is an interference structure in the electric field distribution images, which reveals in the fiber structures. The transmission spectra for the fiber without taper, one taper and two-tapered structures were simulated in near infrared wavelength by FDTD. The transmission spectra for tlated in near infrared wavelength by FDTD. The sensitivity of the fiber was about 50 nm × RIU−1 and it had better refractive index detection. The tapered fiber can be applied to the bio-chemical sensors and physical deformation testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The near field intensity distribution and the near-field transmission spectrums of metallic nanostructures simulated by the finite-difference time-domain method are present in the text. Better field intensity localization and larger field intensity enhancement exist in the near field intensity distribution images for nanoparticle array in the near-infrared wavelength range. The minimum transmission intensity collected at the metal film surface can exceed 1.0 and the electric field intensity can limit in a number of nanometer. Meanwhile, these nanoparticle array structures can extensively apply to biochemical sensor devices design and so on. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]