Title : 
Near-field investigation of a periodic plasmonic metasurface
         
        
            Author : 
Dobmann, Sabine ; Kriesch, Arian ; Ploss, Daniel ; Peschel, Ulf
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inf. & Photonics & Erlangen Grad., Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Using a near-field scanning optical microscope we investigate the optical response of a plasmonic metasurface consisting of a sub-wavelength periodic pattern in an ultrathin (10nm) silver film, which shows extraordinarily suppressed transmission in the visible.
         
        
            Keywords : 
metallic thin films; near-field scanning optical microscopy; optical metamaterials; plasmonics; silver; visible spectra; Ag; near-field scanning optical microscopy; periodic plasmonic metasurface; subwavelength periodic pattern; ultrathin silver film; visible transmission; Antennas and propagation; Gratings; Metals; Optical films; Optical polarization; Plasmons;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA