Effect of surface plasmon resonance on the optical activity of chiral metal nanogratings

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Effect of surface plasmon resonance on the optical activity of chiral metal nanogratings

K. Konishi, T. Sugimoto, B. Bai, Y. Svirko, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 15, pp. 9575-9583 (2007)
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We examine the mechanism responsible for the optical activity of a two-dimensional array of gold nanostructures with no mirror symmetry on a dielectric substrate. Measurements with different incident angles, polarizations and sample orientations allow us to reveal that observed polarization effect is enhanced by surface plasmon resonance. By performing numerical simulation with rigorous diffraction theory we also show that the grating chirality can be described in terms of the non-coplanarity of the electric field vectors at the front (air-metal) and back (substrate-metal) sides of the grating layer.

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(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: May 7, 2007
Revised Manuscript: June 7, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: July 9, 2007
Published: July 18, 2007

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K. Konishi, T. Sugimoto, B. Bai, Y. Svirko, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami, "Effect of surface plasmon resonance on the optical activity of chiral metal nanogratings," Opt. Express 15, 9575-9583 (2007)
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Anceau, C.
Atwater, H. A.
Bagnall, D. M.
Bai, B.
Barnes, W. L.
Barns, W. L.
Brasselet, S.
Chen, Y.
Coles, H. J.
Darmanyan, S. A.
Decker, M.
Devaux, E.
Dintinger, J.
Ebbesen, T. W.
Elliott, J.
Fedotov, V. A.
Gadenne, P.
Ghaemi, H. F.
Giessen, H.
Grupp, D. E.
Ino, Y.
Jefimovs, K.
Kauranen, M.
Kiston, S. C.
Klein, M. W.
Koch, S. W.
Krasavin, A.
Krasavin, A. V.
Kuhl, J.
Kuwata-Gonokami, M.
Lezec, H. J.
Li, L.
Linden, S.
Maier, S. A.
Miyanishi, S.
Murray, W. A.
Ohno, T.
Osipov, M.
Papakostas, A.
Plum, E.
Potts, A.
Preist, T. W.
Prosvirnin, S. L.
Reichelt, M.
Rogacheva, A. V.
Saito, N.
Sambles, J. R.
Sato, K.
Schwanecke, A. S.
Smolyaninov, I. I.
Stroucken, T.
Svirko, Y.
Thio, T.
Turunen, J.
Vallius, T.
Wegener, M.
Wolff, P. A.
Wright, E. M.
Zayats, A. V.
Zheldev, N. I.
Zheludev, N.
Zheludev, N. I.
Zyss, J.

Appl. Phys. Lett.

E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, A. S. Schwanecke, N. I. Zheludev, and Y. Chen, "Giant optical gyrotropy due to electromagnetic coupling," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 223113 (2007). [CrossRef]
Y. Svirko, N. Zheludev, and M. Osipov, "Layered chiral metallic microstructures with inductive coupling," Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 498-500 (2001). [CrossRef]
A. V. Krasavin, A. S. Schwanecke, N. I. Zheludev, M. Reichelt, T. Stroucken, S. W. Koch, and E. M. Wright, "Polarization conversion and "focusing" of light propagating through a small chiral hole in a metallic screen," Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 201105 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Appl. Phys.

S. A. Maier, and H. A. Atwater, "Plasmonics: Localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures," J. Appl. Phys. 98, 011101 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.

B. Bai and L. Li, "Group-theoretic approach to enhancing the Fourier modal method for crossed gratings with C4 symmetry," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 783-789 (2005). [CrossRef]

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.

K. Sato, "Measurement of Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Using Piezo-Birefringent Modulator," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 20, 2403-2409 (1981). [CrossRef]

Nature

T. W. Ebbesen, H. J. Lezec, H. F. Ghaemi, T. Thio, and P. A. Wolff, "Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays," Nature 391, 667-669 (1998). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

J. Elliott, I. I. Smolyaninov, N. I. Zheludev, and A. V. Zayats, "Polarization control of optical transmission of a periodic array of elliptical nanohole in a metal film," Opt. Express 29, 1414-1416 (2004).
T. Ohno and S. Miyanishi, "Study of surface plasmon chirality induced by Archimedes’ spiral grooves," Opt. Express 14, 6285-6290 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

Phys. Rev. B.

H. F. Ghaemi, T. Thio, D. E. Grupp, T. W. Ebbesen, and H. J. Lezec, "Surface plasmons enhance optical transmission through subwavelength holes," Phys. Rev. B. 58, 6779-6782 (1998). [CrossRef]
S. A. Darmanyan and A. V. Zayats, "Light tunneling via resonant surface plasmon polariton states and the enhanced transmission of periodically nanostructured metal films: An analytical study," Phys. Rev. B. 67, 035424 (2003). [CrossRef]
W. L. Barns, T. W. Preist, S. C. Kiston, and J. R. Sambles, "Physical origin of photonic energy gaps in the propagation of surface plasmons on gratings," Phys. Rev. B. 54, 6227-6244 (1996). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

W. L. Barnes, W. A. Murray, J. Dintinger, E. Devaux, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Their Role in the Enhanced Transmission of Light through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes in a Metal Film," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 107401 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
S. Linden, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen, "Controlling the Interaction between Light and Gold Nanoparticles: Slelective Suppression of Excitation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4688-4691 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Papakostas, A. Potts, D. M. Bagnall, S. L. Prosvirnin, H. J. Coles, and N. I. Zheludev, "Optical Manifestations of Planar Chirality," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107404 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. S. Schwanecke, A. Krasavin, D. M. Bagnall, A. Potts, A. V. Zayats, and N. I. Zheludev, "Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 247404 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Kuwata-Gonokami, N. Saito, Y. Ino, M. Kauranen, K. Jefimovs, T. Vallius, J. Turunen, and Y. Svirko, "Giant Optical Activity in Quasi-Two-Dimentional Planar Nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227401 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. V. Rogacheva, V. A. Fedotov, A. S. Schwanecke, and N. I. Zheldev, "Giant Gyrotropy due to Electromagnetic-Field Coupling in a Bilayered Chiral Structure," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 117401 (2006). [CrossRef]

Other

In the inset of Fig. 1 of Ref. 8, images of the left- and right-twisted structures were exchanged by mistake.
D. W. Lynch, and W. R. Hunter, "Gold(Au)" in Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids, E. D. Palik, ed. (Academic, New York, 1984).
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media (New York, Pergamon Press 1960).
M. Born, Optik (Springer, Berlin, 1930).
R. C. Weast, M. J. Astle, and W.H. Beyer, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 64 th ed. (CRC Press, Florida, 1984).
H. Raether, Surface Plasmons on Smooth and Rough Surfaces and on Grating (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988).

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