Regular paper

Exploring the impact of rotating rectangular plasmonic nano-hole arrays on the transmission spectra and its application as a plasmonic sensor

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah 21432, Saudi Arabia
² Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21526, Egypt
³ Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21432, Saudi Arabia

^* amr.mahros@mena.vt.edu

Received: 20 February 2015
Revised: 16 April 2015

Abstract

Plasmonic nano-structures play a significant role in most recent photonic devices and applications. In this paper, we investigate the optical transmission spectra of rotatable periodic nano-metric apertures with different dimensions. This investigation includes monitoring the modification of both the transmission resonance wavelengths and peak transmittance at different dimensions and orientations of the nano-holes. The obtained results provide better insight to the interaction of light with periodic plasmonic nano-hole arrays. We find that nano-holes dimension/orientation can totally suppress an optical transmission, tune its resonance wavelengths, and change its peak values. Furthermore, we present the surface plasmonic resonance sensing as an application for the reported nano-hole array.