A new paper

I just had a paper, "Light localization, photon sorting, and enhanced absorption in subwavelength cavity arrays" (based on some of my dissertation work) accepted for publication in Optics Express. It's now listed on their Issues in Progress page, and the journal is open access, which means the full-text PDF version is available for free.

The basic idea is that the structure we designed and made:

can spectrally and spatially split incoming radiation into different holes in the metal, where it is almost entirely absorbed. This is pseudo-color plot (from a simulation) of where the absorption happens inside a single unit cell of the structure:

For the rest of the info, read the paper!

E. Lansey, et al., "Light localization, photon sorting, and enhanced absorption in subwavelength cavityarrays," Opt. Express  20, 24226-24236 (2012).