“…However, it was soon realized ͑Baida et al, 2004͒ that this propagating mode cannot be excited by a normally incident plane wave and it even plays a minor role for oblique incidence and p-polarized light ͑Baida, 2007͒. Instead, the transmission resonances emerging in arrays of annular holes result from the interplay between SPP modes and localized resonances that are spectrally located at the cutoff wavelength of the TE 11 mode of the annular waveguide ͑Orbons and Roberts, 2006; Lomakin et al, 2007͒. Through an optimization of parameters, absolute transmissions were predicted up to 90% for arrays with a significant "opaque" area.…”