Plasmonic crystal for efficient energy transfer from fluorescent molecules to long-range surface plasmons

doi:10.1364/OE.17.008294

Plasmonic crystal for efficient energy transfer from fluorescent molecules to long-range surface plasmons

Takayuki Okamoto, Janne Simonen, and Satoshi Kawata »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 10, pp. 8294-8301 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.008294

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Abstract

Corrugated metallic thin film structures that do not support short-range surface plasmon modes but do support long-range modes are discussed. The coupling efficiency of the energy of excited fluorescent molecules to long-range modes is theoretically calculated using the rigorous coupled wave approach. The obtained maximum coupling efficiency is found to be 55%, more that two times higher than the efficiency of uncorrugated metallic thin films.

OCIS Codes
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(260.2160) Physical optics : Energy transfer
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: February 2, 2009
Revised Manuscript: April 17, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: April 29, 2009
Published: May 1, 2009

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Takayuki Okamoto, Janne Simonen, and Satoshi Kawata, "Plasmonic crystal for efficient energy transfer from fluorescent molecules to long-range surface plasmons," Opt. Express 17, 8294-8301 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-10-8294

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[1] W. L. Barnes, A. Dereux, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics," Nature (London) 424, 824-830 (2003). [CrossRef]

[2] E. Ozbay, "Plasmonics: Merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions," Science 311, 189-193 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[3] S. Kawata, ed. Near-field and surface plasmon polaritons, (Springer, Berlin, 2001). [CrossRef]

[4] D. J. Bergman and M. I. Stockman, "Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation: Quantum generation of coherent surface plasmons in nanosystems," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 027402 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] T. Okamoto, F. H’Dhili, and S. Kawata, "Towards plasmonic bandgap laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 853968 (2004). [CrossRef]

[6] J. Seidel, S. Grafstrom, and L. Eng, "Stimulated emission of surface plasmons at the ineterface between a silver film and an optically pumped dye solution," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177401 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[7] M. A. Noginov, G. Zhu, M. Bahoura, J. Adegoke, C. E. Small, B. A. Ritzo, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, "Enhancement of surface plasmon in an Ag aggregate by optical gain in a dielectric medium," Opt. Lett. 31, 3022-3024 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] M. A. Noginov, G. Zhu, M. Mayy, B. A. Ritzo, N. Noginov, and V. A. Podolskiy, "Stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 226806 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] D. Sarid, "Long-range surface-plasma waves on very thin metal films," Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1927-1930 (1981). [CrossRef]

[10] R. R. Chance, A. Prock, and R. Silbey, "Molecular fluorescence and energy transfer near interfaces," Adv. Chem. Phys. 37, 1-65 (1978). [CrossRef]

[11] W. H. Weber and C. F. Eagen, "nergy transfer from an excited dye molecule to the surface plasmons of an adjacent metal," Opt. Lett. 4, 236-238 (1979). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] G. Winter, S. Wedge, and W. L. Barnes, "Can lasing at visible wavelength be achieved using the low-loss longrange surface plasmon-polariton mode?," New J. Phys. 8, 125-138 (2006). [CrossRef]

[13] T. Okamoto, J. Simonen, and S. Kawata, "Plasmonic band gaps of structured metallic thin films evaluated for a surface plasmon laser using the coupled-wave approach," Phys. Rev. B 77, 115425 (2008). [CrossRef]

[14] L. Li, "Formulation and comparison of two recursive matrix algorithms for modeling layerd diffraction gratings," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1024-1035 (1996). [CrossRef]

[15] L. Li, "Use of Fourier series in the analysis of discontinuous periodic structures," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1870- 1876 (1996). [CrossRef]

[16] M. Nevi ere and E. Popov, Light Propagation in Periodic Media, (Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003).

[17] P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, "Optical constants of the noble metals," Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370-4379 (1972). [CrossRef]

[18] W. L. Barnes, T. W. Preist, S. C. Kitson, J. R. Sambles, N. P. K. Cotter, and D. J. Nash, "Hotonic gaps in the dispersion of surface plasmons on grating," Phys. Rev. B 51, 11164-11168 (1995). [CrossRef]

[19] G. W. Ford and W. H. Weber, "Electromagnetic interactions of molecules with metal surfaces," Phys. Rep. 113, 195-287 (1984). [CrossRef]

[20] J. A. Porto, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, J. B. Pendry, "Transmission resonances on metallic grating with very narrow slits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2845-2848 (1999). [CrossRef]

[21] S. Collin, F. Pardo, R. Teissier, and J. -L. Pelouard, "Strong discontinuities in the complex photonic band structure of transmission metallic grating," Phys. Rev. B 63, 033107 (2001). [CrossRef]

[22] F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno, "Transmission and focusing of light in one-dimensional periodically nanostructured metals," Phys. Rev. B 66, 155412 (2002). [CrossRef]

[23] F. Marquier, J. -J. Greffet, S. Collin, F. Pardo, and J. L. Pelouard, "Resonant transmission through a metallic film due to coupled modes," Opt. Express 13, 70-76 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[24] P. B. Catrysse, G. Veronis, H. Shin, J. -T. Shen, and S. Fan, "Guided modes supported by plasmonic films with a periodic arrangement of subwavelength slits," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 031101 (2006). [CrossRef]

[25] J. M. Steele, C. E. Moran, A. Lee, C. M. Aguirre, and N. J. Halas, "Metallodielectric gratings with subwavelength slots: Optical properties," Phys. Rev. 68, 205103 (2003).

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