Numerical Modeling of the Electromagnetic Field Measurement Process by the Aluminum Aperture Cantilever

Abstract

In this research we estimate the polarisation influence of the incident radiation on the measurement by a pyramidal aperture cantilever. The numerical modelling of the detection process was made by applying the frequency depended finite-difference time-domain method. We numerically demonstrated that the angle of incidence and the plane of inclination can affect on the measurement process by the aperture aluminum cantilever while the aperture shape has not any influence on the measurement process for both proposed types of incident light polarization: linear and circular left. Simulation results show that as the tilt angle for rotation of incident light increases the total intensity inside the cantilever decreases by about 50 and 30% for the linearly and circularly polarized light. It prooves that aperture aluminum cantilever is weakly sensitive to the longitudinal component.