Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons (eBook)

Satoshi Kawata, Vladimir M. Shalaev (Herausgeber)

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2006 | 1. Auflage
340 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-046799-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Current developments in optical technologies are being directed toward nanoscale devices with subwavelength dimensions, in which photons are manipulated on the nanoscale. Although light is clearly the fastest means to send information to and from the nanoscale, there is a fundamental incompatibility between light at the microscale and devices and processes at the nanoscale. Nanostructured metals which support surface plasmon modes can concentrate electromagnetic (EM) fields to a small fraction of a wavelength while enhancing local field strengths by several orders of magnitude. For this reason, plasmonic nanostructures can serve as optical couplers across the nano-micro interface: metal-dielectric and metal-semiconductor nanostructures can act as optical nanoantennae and enhance light matter coupling in nanoscale devices. This book describes how one can fully integrate plasmonic nanostructures into dielectric, semiconductor, and molecular photonic devices, for guiding photons across the nano-micro interface and for detecting molecules with unsurpassed sensitivity.

?Nanophotonics and Nanoplasmonics
?Metamaterials and negative-index materials
?Plasmon-enhanced sensing and spectroscopy
?Imaging and sensing on the nanoscale
?Metal Optics

Inhalt

Cover 1
Preface 6
Contents 8
List of Contributors 14
Chapter 1. Dynamic components utilizing long-range surface plasmon polaritons 16
§ 1.Introduction 18
§ 2. Fundamentals of long-range surface plasmon polaritons 20
§ 3. Basic waveguide fabrication and characterization 27
§ 4. Interferometric modulators and directional-coupler switches 31
§ 5. In-line extinction modulators 36
§ 6. Integrated power monitors 41
§ 7. Outlook 47
Acknowledgments 48
References 48
Chapter 2. Metal strip and wire waveguides for surface plasmon polaritons 50
§ 1. Introduction 52
§ 2. Experimental aspects 53
§ 3. Metal strips 57
§ 4. Metal nanowires 66
§ 5. Summary and future directions 73
Acknowledgments 74
References 75
Chapter 3. Super-resolution microscopy using surface plasmon polaritons 78
§ 1. Introduction 80
§ 2. Principles of SPP-assisted microscopy 85
§ 3. Imaging through photonic crystal space 96
§ 4. Imaging and resolution tests 101
§ 5. The role of effective refractive index of the SPP crystal mirror 107
§ 6. Experimental observation of negative refraction 112
§ 7. SPP microscopy application in biological imaging 115
§ 8. Digital resolution enhancement 118
§ 9. Conclusion 121
Acknowledgements 121
References 121
Chapter 4. Active plasmonics 124
§ 1. Introduction 126
§ 2. The concept of active plasmonics 127
§ 3. Coupling light to and from SPP waves with gratings 129
§ 4. Modelling SPP propagation in an active plasmonic device 138
§ 5. Active plasmonics: experimental tests 146
§ 6. Summary and conclusions 150
Acknowledgements 152
References 152
Chapter 5. Surface plasmons and gain media 156
§ 1. Introduction 158
§ 2. Estimation of the critical gain 163
§ 3. Experimental samples and setups 164
§ 4. Experimental results and discussion 164
§ 5. Summary 179
Acknowledgments 180
References 180
Chapter 6. Optical super-resolution for ultra-high density optical data storage 186
§ 1. Introduction 188
§ 2. Features and mechanisms of super-RENS disk - types A and B 189
§ 3. Features of super-RENS disk – type C 192
§ 4. Understanding the super-resolution mechanism of type C disk 194
§ 5. Combination of plasmonic enhancement and type C super-RENS disk 198
§ 6. Summary 202
Acknowledgement 203
References 203
Chapter 7. Metal stripe surface plasmon waveguides 206
§ 1. Introduction 208
§ 2. Experimental techniques 209
§ 3. Numerical methods 212
§ 4. Leaky modes supported by metal stripe waveguides 214
§ 5. Analytical models for stripe modes 219
§ 6. Propagation along metal stripe waveguides 224
§ 7. Summary 229
References 231
Chapter 8. Biosensing with plasmonic nanoparticles 234
§ 1. The current need for new types of biosensors 236
§ 2. Nanoparticle plasmons 237
§ 3. Metal nanoparticles replacing fluorophores in assays 246
§ 4. Coupled NPP resonances as sensor signal 253
§ 5. Dielectric environment plasmonic biosensors 258
§ 6. Biosensing with surface-enhanced Raman scattering 267
§ 7. Concluding remarks 278
Acknowledgements 279
References 279
Chapter 9. Thin metal-dielectric nanocomposites with a negative index of refraction 286
§ 1. Introduction 288
§ 2. Optical characteristics of cascaded NIMs 306
§ 3. Combining magnetic resonators with semicontinuous films 316
Acknowledgment 322
References 322
Author Index 324
Subject Index 338

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• ISBN-10: 0-08-046799-7 / 0080467997
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-046799-3 / 9780080467993