Enhanced optical transmission by V-shaped nanoslit in metal film

In this paper,we reveal that the enhanced transmission through a perforated metal film can be further boosted up by a V-shaped nanoslit,which consists of two connected oblique slits.The maximum transmission at resonance can be enhanced significantly by 71.5%in comparison with the corresponding vertical slit with the same exit width.The value and position of transmission resonance peak strongly depend on the apex angle of the V-shaped slit.The optimum apex angle,at which the transmission is maximal,is sensitive to the slit width.Such phenomena can be well explained by a concrete picture in which the incident wave drives free electrons on the slit walls.Moreover,we also simply analyze the splitting of the transmission peak in the symmetry broken V-shaped slit,originating from the resonances of different parts of the V-shaped slit.We expect that our findings will be used to design the nanoscale light sources based on the metal nanoslit structures.