Extremely short-length surface plasmon resonance sensors
Optics
2008-11-25 v1
Abstract
The impact of the system design on the control of coupling between planar waveguide modes and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) is analyzed. We examine how the efficiency of the coupling can be enhanced by an appropriate dimensioning of a multi-layer device structure without using additional gratings. We demonstrate that by proper design the length of the device can be dramatically reduced through fabrication a surface plasmon resonance sensor based on the SPP-photon transformation rather then on SPP dissipation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.1966,
title = {Extremely short-length surface plasmon resonance sensors},
author = {Maxim L. Nesterov and Alexandre V. Kats and Sergei K. Turitsyn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1966},
year = {2008}
}