Oblique-incidence excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on small metal wires

Details Oblique-incidence excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on small metal wires Oblique-incidence excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on small metal wires

2009-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/0906.2089v1

Physics

Optics

125 pages, 34 figures, diploma thesis at the MPRG, Erlangen, Germany

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This work reports on the experimental investigation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) on cylindrical wires of small diameters. Applying a new technique that was developed by this group and recently reported, single wire and wire array samples of gold (Au) and silver (Ag) with small diameters 400nm < D < 3 mum and high aspect ratios <= 75000 in photonic crystal fibers and single hole capillaries are fabricated. Additionally, effective bulk metal wires of Au and Ag are created by a hybrid technique, including fiber tapering and magnetron sputter deposition for a large number of different diameters between 13 mum to 50 mum. The measurement of the absorption, corresponding to the excitation of SPP modes is realized with a new goniometer-based experimental setup for oblique incidence laser beam scattering at a single wavelength. A device is developed that allows a simultaneous measurement of the scattering amplitude in s- and p-polarization under varied incident angle. For comparison, a model for the dispersion of discrete SPP modes and their angles of excitation is derived. The computed results are for the first time compared with a theoretical approach to electromagnetic scattering theory for cylinders, that is calculated analogue to Mie scattering and to an exact solution of Maxwell's equations for cylindrical SPP. The validity of the model is proved for higher incident angles. The first oblique incidence examination of SPP on metal wires for this size range is reported. The experimental results for low incident angles show good accordance to the numerical results from scattering theory.

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