Optimizing silver film for surface plasmoncoupled emission induced two-photon excited fluorescence imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5386-5396

  Chiu, Kuo Chih ^a   Lin, Chun Yu ^a   Dong, Chen Yuan ^b   Chen, Shean Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; GERMANIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AG FILMS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DIELECTRIC SPACERS; EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING EFFECT; HIGH LASER POWER; HOT SPOT; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; SEED LAYER; SILVER FILM; SURFACE PLASMON-COUPLED EMISSION; SURFACE SMOOTHNESS; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE;

SILVER;

EID: 79952577620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005386     Document Type: Article

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