| Sumario: | Transmission dips in the response of metallic compound gratings formed by several wires and slits in each period have been recently reported for normal illumination. These anomalies are generated by a particular arrangement of the magnetic field phases inside the subwavelength slits, and they are characterized by a significant enhancement of the interior field. We investigate the microwave response of such systems under non-normal illumination and show that new phase modes appear in this configuration. Contrary to the effect produced by a defect in a photonic crystal, these systems exhibit forbidden channels within a permitted band. We also found that the appearance of these resonances is not highly dependent on the slits' width and thickness, even though these parameters modify the overall transmittance. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
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