Integrated Nanophotonic Devices, 2nd Edition

Figure 6.11 Absorption cross-section for silver and gold spheres. Both silver and gold spheres are with 100-nm diameter and embedded in air; the y axis is normalized to 10⁻¹² μm².

Figure 6.12 Absorption cross-section calculated using 7.47 and 7.48 for prolate silver spheroids in air with different axis lengths. L indicates the long axis of the spheroid and S indicates the short axis of the spheroid. For each combination of long and short axes, the absorption was calculated for both the polarization parallel to the long axis (solid curves) and ...