Plasmon-enhanced refractometry using silver nanowire coatings on tilted fibre Bragg gratings

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 44, 2012, Pages

  Bialiayeu, A ^a   Bottomley, A ^a   Prezgot, D ^a   Ianoul, A ^a   Albert, J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRE CLADDING; JONES MATRIX; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; REFRACTOMETRY; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; SILVER NANOWIRES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BRAGG GRATINGS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; PLASMONS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84867754314     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/44/444012     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Chan C F, Chen C, Jafari A, Laronche A, Thomson D J and Albert J 2007 Optical fibre refractometer using narrowband cladding mode resonance shifts Appl. Opt. 46 1142-9 (Pubitemid 46516010)
2. Albert J, Shao L Y and Caucheteur C 2012 Tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors Laser Photonics Rev. at press
3. Shevchenko Y and Albert J 2007 Plasmon resonances in gold-coated tilted fibre Bragg gratings Opt. Lett. 32 211-3 (Pubitemid 46339947)
4. Bialiayeu A, Caucheteur C, Ahamad N, Ianoul A and Albert J 2011 Self-optimized metal coatings for fibre plasmonics by electroless deposition Opt. Express 19 18742-53
5. Piliarik M, Sipova H, Kvasnicka P, Galler N, Krenn J R and Homola J 2012 High-resolution biosensor based on localized surface plasmons Opt. Express 20 672-80
6. Mayer K M and Hafner J H 2011 Localized surface plasmon resonance sensors Chem. Rev. 111 3828-57
7. Anker J N, Hall W P, Lyanders O, Shah N C, Zhao J and Van Duyne R 2008 Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors Nature Mater. 7 442-53 (Pubitemid 351735880)
8. Ahamad N, Bottomley A and Ianoul A 2012 Optimizing refractive index sensitivity of supported silver nanocube monolayers J. Phys. Chem. C 116 185-92
9. Bottomley A and Ianoul A 2011 Improved refractive-index sensitivity of silver nanocube monolayers on silicon films ChemPhysChem 12 2912-4
10. Lee P C and Meisel D 1982 Adsorption and surface-enhanced Raman of dyes on silver and gold sols J. Phys. Chem. 86 3391-5
11. Fleischmann M, Hendra P J and McQuillan A J 1974 Raman spectra of pyridine adsorbed at a silver electrode Chem. Phys. Lett. 26 163-6
12. Ianoul A and Bergeron A 2006 Spatially inhomogeneous enhancement of fluorescence by a monolayer of silver nanoparticles Langmuir 22 10217-22 (Pubitemid 46079309)
13. Parfenov A, Gryczynski I, Malicka J, Geddes C and Lakowicz J R 2003 Enhanced fluorescence from fluorophores on fractal silver surfaces J. Phys. Chem. B 107 8829-33
14. Anger P, Bharadwaj P and Novotny L 2006 Enhancement and quenching of single-molecule fluorescence Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 113002
15. Rigneault H, Capoulade J, Dintinger J, Wenger J, Bonod N, Popov E, Ebbesen T W and Lenne P-F 2005 Enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence detection in subwavelength apertures Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 117401 (Pubitemid 41505692)
16. Hartstein A, Kirtley J R and Tsang J C 1980 Enhancement of the infrared absorption from molecular monolayers with thin metal overlayers Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 201-4
17. Chen C K, de Castro A R B and Shen Y R 1981 Surface-enhanced second-harmonic generation Phys. Rev. Lett. 46 145-8
18. Maier S A and Atwater H A 2005 Plasmonics: localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures J. Appl. Phys. 98 011101 (Pubitemid 41049005)
19. Ditbacher H, Hohenau A, Wagner D, Kreibig E, Rogers M, Hofer F, Aussenegg F R and Krenn J R 2005 Silver nanowires as surface plasmon resonators Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 257403 (Pubitemid 41816030)
20. Sanders A W, Routenberg D A, Wiley B J, Xia Y, Dufresne E R and Reed M A 2006 Observation of plasmon propagation, redirection, and fan-out in silver nanowires Nano Lett. 6 1822-6 (Pubitemid 44327554)
21. Li Z, Bao K, Fang Y, Huang Y, Nordlander P and Xu H 2010 Correlation between incident and emission polarization in nanowire surface plasmon waveguides Nano Lett. 10 1831-5
22. Encina E R and Coronado E A 2007 Resonance conditions for multipole plasmon excitations in noble metal nanorods J. Phys. Chem. C 111 16796-801 (Pubitemid 350207436)
23. Tasic A Z, Djordjevic B D, Grozdanic D K and Radojkovic N 1992 Use of mixing rules in predicting refractive indexes and specific refractivities for some binary liquid mixtures J. Chem. Eng. Data 37 310-3 (Pubitemid 23573135)
24. Weber M J 2003 Handbook of Optical Materials (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press) p 536
25. Jones C R 1941 A new calculus for the treatment of optical systems J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31 488-93
26. Shih-Yau L and Chipman R A 1994 Homogeneous and inhomogeneous Jones matrices J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11 766-73
27. Heffner B L 1992 Deterministic, analytically complete measurement of polarization-dependent transmission through optical devices IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 4 451-4
28. Keith H W and Nabil H S 1987 Remote polarization control for fiber-optic interferometers Opt. Lett. 12 217-9
29. Caucheteur C, Shevchenko Y, Shao L, Wuilpart M and Albert J 2011 High resolution interrogation of tilted fibre grating SPR sensors from polarization properties measurement Opt. Express 19 1656-64
30. White M I and Fan X 2008 On the performance quantification of resonant refractive index sensors Opt. Express 16 1020-8 (Pubitemid 351162269)
31. Grabar K C, Freeman R G, Hommer M B and NatanM J 1995 Preparation and characterization of Au colloid monolayers Anal. Chem. 67 735-43
32. El Badawi A M, Luxton T P, Silva R G, Schekel K G, Suidan M T and Tolaymat T M 2010 Impact of environmental conditions (pH, ionic strength, and electrolyte type) on the surface charge and aggregation of silver nanoparticles suspensions Environ. Sci. Technol. 44 1260-6
33. Shao L, Coyle J P, Barry S T and Albert J 2011 Anomalous permittivity and plasmon resonances of copper nanoparticle conformal coatings on optical fibres Opt. Mater. Express 1 128-37
34. Shao L, Shevchenko Y and Albert J 2010 Intrinsic temperature sensitivity of tilted fiber Bragg grating based surface plasmon resonance sensors Opt. Express 18 11464-71
35. Erdogan T 1997 Fiber grating spectra J. Lightwave Technol. 15 1277-94 (Pubitemid 127611794)
36. Caucheteur C, Chen C, Voisin V, Berini P and Albert J 2011 A thin metal sheath lifts the EH to HE degeneracy in the cladding mode refractometric sensitivity of optical fiber sensors Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 041118
37. Shevchenko Y, Chen C, Dakka M A and Albert J 2010 Polarization-selective grating excitation of plasmons in cylindrical optical fibres Opt. Lett. 35 637-9
38. Densmore A, Xu D -X, Waldron P, Janz S, Cheben P, Lapointe J, Delage A, Lamontagne B, Schmid J H and Post E 2006 A silicon-on-insulator photonic wire based evanescent field sensor IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 18 2520-2 (Pubitemid 46436669)
39. Snyder A W and Love J D 1983 Optical Waveguide Theory (London: Chapman and Hall)
40. Draine B T and Flatau P J 1994 Discrete-dipole approximation for scattering calculations J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11 1491-9
41. Holmes C, Daly K R, Sparrow I J G, Gates J C, DAlessandro G and Smith P G R 2011 Excitation of surface plasmons using tilted planar-waveguide Bragg gratings IEEE Photonics J. 3 777-88
42. Homola J, Yee S S and Gauglitz G 1999 Surface plasmon resonance sensors: review Sensors Actuators B 54 3-15
43. Roh S, Chung T and Lee B 2011 Overview of the characteristics of micro-and nano-structured surface plasmon resonance sensors Sensors Basel 11 1565-88
44. Rosi N L and Mirkin C A 2005 Nanostructures in biodiagnostics Chem. Rev. 105 1547-62 (Pubitemid 40596871)
45. Hosono N, Kajitani T, Fukushima T, Ito K, Sasaki S, Takata M and Aida T 2010 Large-area three-dimensional molecular ordering of a polymer brush by one-step processing Science 330 808-11