Plasmon scanner and multiplexer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7032, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vlasko Vlasov, Vitalii ^a   Imre, Alexandra ^a   Pearson, John ^a   Hiller, Jon ^a   Welp, Ulrich ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focusing and scanning; Near field imaging; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; FOCUSING; MULTIPLEXING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SCANNING; SILVER; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

FOCAL PLANES; METAL SURFACES; NANO HOLES; NANO SLITS; NANOMETER PRECISIONS; NANOSCALE; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; OPTICAL FIELDS; OPTICAL-; PHASE DELAYS; SILVER NANOWIRES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN SILVER FILMS;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 56249139747     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.796651     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. Barnes W. L., Dereux A., Ebbesen T. W., "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics", Nature 424, 824-830 (2003).
2. Zayats A. V., Smolyaninov I. I., Maradudin A. A., "Nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons", Phys. Rep. 408, 131-314 (2005).
3. Atwater H.A., "The promise of plasmonics", Sci. Amer. 296, 56-63 (2007).
4. Raether H., "Surface Plasmons on Smooth and Rough Surfaces and on Gratings", Springer, Berlin (1988).
5. Lalanne P., Hugonin J. P., Rodier J. C., "Theory of surface plasmon generation at nanoslit apertures", Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263902 (2005).
6. Lalanne P., Hugonin J. P., Rodier J. C., "Approximate model for surface-plasmon generation at slit apertures", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, 1608-1615 (2006).
7. Yin L., Vlasko-Vlasov V. K., Rydh A., Pearson J., Welp U., Chang S.-H., Gray S. K., Schatz G. C., Brown D. B., Kimball C. W., "Surface plasmons at single nanoholes in Au films", Appl.Phys.Lett. 85, 467 (2004).
8. Yin L., Vlasko-Vlasov V. K., Pearson J., Hiller J. M., Hua J., Welp U., Brown D. E., Kimball C. W., "Subwavelength Focusing and Guiding of Surface Plasmons", NanoLett. 5, 1399 (2005).
9. Johnson P. B., Christy R. W.,"Optical constants of the noble metals", Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370-4379 (1972).
10. Vlasko-Vlasov V., Rydh A., Pearson J., Welp U., "Spectroscopy of surface plasmons in metal films with nanostructures", Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 173112 (2006).
11. Smolyaninov I. I., Mazzoni D. L., Mait J., Davis C. C., "Experimental study of surface-plasmon scattering by individual surface defects", Phys. Rev. B 56, 1601-1611 (1997).
12. Lopez-Tejeira F., Rodrigo S.G. , Martin-Moreno L., Garcia-Vidal F.J., Devaux E., Ebbesen T.W., Krenn J.R., Radko I.P., Bozhevolnyi S.I., Gonzalez M.U., Weeber J.C., Dereux A., "Efficient unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons", Nat. Phys. 3, 324-328 (2007).
13. Nomura W., Ohtsu M., Yatsui T., "Nanodot coupler with a surface plasmon polariton condenser for optical far/nearfield conversion", Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 181108 (2005).
14. Steele J.M., Z. Liu, Y. Wang, and X. Zhang, "Resonant and non-resonant generation and focusing of surface plasmons with circular gratings", Opt. Express 14, 5664-5670 (2006).
15. Bahns J. T., Imre A., Vlasko-Vlasov V. K., Pearson J., Hiller J. M., Chen L. H., Welp U., "Enhanced Raman scattering from focused surface plasmons", Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 081104 (2007).
16. Liu Zh., Steele J. M., Lee H., and Zhang X., Tuning the focus of a plasmonic lens by the incident angle", Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 171108 (2006).
17. Imre A., Vlasko-Vlasov V. K., Pearson J., Hiller J. M., Welp U.," Multiplexing surface plasmon polaritons on nanowires", Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 083115 (2007).