Nanophotonics using a subwavelength aperture in a metal film
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This review focuses on the optical theory and applications of a single subwavelength aperture in a metal film. We begin with Bethe’s aperture theory for the optical transmission through a subwavelength aperture in a perfect electric conductor film and extend the discussion to apertures in real metals of finite thickness and to apertures with different shapes. Extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) is reviewed, particularly for an aperture in a transverse waveguide screen and for waveguide EOT with applications to aperture near-field probes. We overview applications of single subwavelength nanoapertures to refractive index sensing, single molecule fluorescence detection, Raman spectroscopy and optical trapping of dielectric nanoparticles, including biological matter. Finally, we discuss the potential of combining these many different capabilities to create greater functionality with a single aperture.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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