With a rapid development of nanoscience and nano- technology, the interaction of light with nanoscaled objects remains as an important topic in recent years because of its wide range applications to optical sensors, imaging, and integrated photonic devices. The studies of the interaction are organized in many different ways [1], being dependent on the dimensionality of the objects and exciting sources.
In this paper, we investigate a two-dimensional scattering and guidance of TE polarized light by a multilayered cylindrically periodic array of metal-coated dielectric nano- cylinders by using a semi-analytical method [2]. In this approach, the scattered fields in near field region to far field region of the cylindrical array structure can be accurately calculated by using the T-matrix of the nanocylinder in isolation and the generalized reflection and transmission matrices for the cylindrical waves. As a model of multi- layered structures, we take a two-layered or three-layered structure with three or four nanocylinders on each layer. The spectral responses of the scattering and absorption cross section of the cylindrical structure and associated near field distributions are numerically investigated. It is shown that the light wave with a particular wavelength can be guided
The scattering problem is semi-analytically formulated using the T -matrix of a circular cylinder in isolation, the reflection and transmission matrices of a cylindrical array based on the cylindrical harmonics expansion, and the generalized reflection and transmission matrices for a cylindrically layered structure. The details of formulation process and analytical procedure are presented in [2],[3].
Fig.1. Cross-sectional view of multilayered cylindrically periodic arrays of metal-coated nanocylinders illuminated by
through the localized plasmon resonances on each nano-
cylinder when the size of the cylinder and their separation distance are optimized