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The response of nanostructured surfaces in the near field

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Arising from: P. Lalanne & J. P. Hugonin, Nature Phys. 2, 551–558 (2006)

To the Editors — The authors of ref. 1 state that their numerical calculation of the transmission intensity dependence of very simple subwavelength planar structures in a silver film agrees well with an earlier-developed model2, but both model and numerical simulation show significant disagreement with the experimental results of ref. 3. The authors1 speculate that the silver surfaces of the subwavelength structures used in ref. 3 were contaminated by an 11 nm overlayer of silver sulphide, because such a layer would bring the reported experimental results and their calculations into better agreement.

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Figure 1: Comparison of FDTD simulation and experiment.

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  1. IRSAMC/LCAR Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31062, France

    G. Gay, O. Alloschery & J. Weiner

  2. Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, 91125, California, USA

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  3. CNRS, Paris, 75794, France

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  4. Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    C. O'Dwyer

  5. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, 60208, Illinois, USA

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