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Polarization tomography of metallic nanohole arrays

E. Altewischer, C. Genet, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman, P. F. A. Alkemade, A. van Zuuk, E. W. J. M. van der Drift

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0405141

Abstract

We report polarization tomography experiments on metallic nanohole arrays with square and hexagonal symmetry. As a main result, we find that a fully polarized input beam is partly depolarized after transmission through a nanohole array. This loss of polarization coherence is found to be anisotropic, i.e. it depends on the polarization state of the input beam. The depolarization is ascribed to a combination of two factors: i) the nonlocal response of the array due to surface plasmon propagation, ii) the non-plane wave nature of a practical input beam.

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