Numerical study and optimization of a diffraction grating for surface plasmon excitation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5927, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Lévêque, Gaëtan ^a   Martin, Olivier J F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffraction grating; Green's tensor method; Numerical simulation; Resonant nanoparticles; Surface plasmon polariton wave

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHTING; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; PRISMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

GREEN'S TENSOR METHOD; RESONANT NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON WAVE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 31844443303     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.616976     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. J. Ditinger, S. Klein, F. Bustos, W. L. Barnes, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Strong coupling between surface plasmon-polaritons and organic molecules in subwavelength hole arrays," Phys. Rev. B 71, p. 035424(5), 2005.
2. F. Yu and W. Knoll, "Immunosensor with self-referencing based on surface plasmon diffraction," Anal. Chem. 76, pp. 1971-1975, 2004.
3. A. Otto, "Excitation of nonradiative surface plasma waves in silver by the method of frustrated total reflection," Z. Phys. 216, pp. 398-410, 1968.
4. F. I. Baida, D. V. Labeke, and J. M. Vigoureux, "Theoritical study of near-field surface plasmon excitation, propagation and diffraction," Optics Commun. 171, pp. 317-331, 1999.
5. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, V. S. Volkhov, A. Boltasseva, and K. Leosson, "Local excitation of surface plasmon polaritons in random surface nanostructures," Optics Commun. 223, pp. 25-29, 2003.
6. A. V. Zayats, I. Smolyaninov, and A. A. Maradudin, "Nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rep. 408, pp. 131-314, 2005.
7. H. Ditlbacher, J. R. Krenn, G. Schider, A. Leitner, and F. R. Aussenegg, "Two-dimensional optics with surface plasmon polaritons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, p. 1762(3), 2002.
8. H. Ditlbacher, J. R. Krenn, A. Hohenau, A. Leitner, and F. R. Aussenegg, "Efficiency of local light-plasmon coupling," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83. p. 3665(3). 2003.
9. O. J. F. Martin and N. B. Piller, "Electromagnetic scattering in polarizable backgrounds," Phys. Rev. E 58, p. 3909(7), 1998.
10. M. Paulus, P. Gay-Balmaz, and O. J. F. Martin, "Accurate and efficient computation of the green's tensor for stratified media," Phys. Rev. E 62, p. 5797(11), 2000.
11. G. Lévêque, R. Mathevet, J. Weiner, G. C. des Francs, C. Girard, R. Quidant, J. C. Weeber, and A. Dereux, "Modelling resonant coupling between microring resonators addressed by optical evanescent waves," Nanotechnology 15, pp. 1200-1210, 2004.
12. Introduction to surface and superlattice excitations, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1989.
13. W. L. Barnes, T. W. Preist, S. C. Kitson, and J. R. Sambles, "Physical origin of photonic energy gaps in the propagation of surface plasmons on gratings," Phys. Rev. B 54, p. 6227(18), 1996.
14. D. Sarid, "Long-range surface-plasma waves on very thin metal films," Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, pp. 1927-1930, 1981.
15. J. Burke and G. I. Stegeman, "Surface-polariton-like waves guided by thin, lossy metal films," Phys. Rev. B 33, p. 5186, 1986.
16. J. P. Kottmann, O. J. F. Martin, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, "Non-regularly shaped plasmon resonant nanoparticle as localized light source for near-field microscopy," J. Microsc. 202, pp. 60-65, 2001.
17. J. P. Kottmann, O. J. F. Martin, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, "Plasmon resonances of silver nanowirew with a nonregular cross section," Phys. Rev. B 64, p. 235402, 2001.