Local electric field enhancement and polarization effects in a surface-enhanced Raman scattering fiber sensor with chessboard nanostructure

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13016-13023

  Chen, Shuqi ^a,b   Han, Lin ^a,b   Schülzgen, Axel ^a   Li, Hongbo ^a   Li, Li ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FIBERS; METAL COATINGS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; NANOSTRUCTURED FIBERS; PLASMON RESONANCES; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; POLARIZATION EFFECT; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); SURFACE PLASMONS;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FIBER OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 50149104006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013016     Document Type: Article

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