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We review a series of experiments on the optical properties of metal films perforated with arrays of sub-wavelength holes. A key experiment is the transfer of polarization entanglement under plane-wave/focused illumination, where we observed a conservation/degradation of the quantum entanglement. Surface plasmons play a prominent role in the observed extra-ordinary large transmission. This is demonstrated with two supporting experiments performed with classical light, investigating: (i) the polarization and angular dependent transmission through the arrays, (ii) the generation of coherent beams of surface plasmons. Both experiments prove the directionality and TM-character expected for surface plasmon modes on a hole array.
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van Exter, M.P., Altewischer, E., Woerdman, J.P.(. (2009). Coherent Polarization Transfer through Sub-wavelength Hole Arrays. In: Schmid, A., Goel, S., Wang, W., Beiu, V., Carrara, S. (eds) Nano-Net. NanoNet 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04850-0_12
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