Friedler I, Lalanne P, Hugonin J P, Claudon J, Gérard J M, Beveratos A, Robert-Philip I
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
Opt Lett. 2008 Nov 15;33(22):2635-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.002635.
Using a fully vectorial frequency-domain aperiodic Fourier modal method, we study nanowire metallic mirrors and their photonic performance. We show that the performance of standard quarter-wave Bragg mirrors at subwavelength diameters is surprisingly poor, while engineered metallic mirrors that incorporate a thin dielectric adlayer may offer reflectance larger than 90% even for diameters as small as lambda/5.
