Surface plasmon effects induced by uncollimated emission of semiconductor microstructures

doi:10.1364/OE.17.010411

Surface plasmon effects induced by uncollimated emission of semiconductor microstructures

Dominic Lepage and Jan J. Dubowski »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 12, pp. 10411-10418 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.010411

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We have recently proposed an innovative microstructure for a monolithically integrated surface plasmon resonance (SPR) device comprising a metal coated SiO₂ layer deposited atop a photoluminescence emitting quantum well (QW) wafer. The functioning of such a device is based on the uncollimated and incoherent emission of semiconductors. We discuss the results of our calculations aimed at the description of SPs coupling in QW semiconductor-based SPR architectures designed for biosensing applications. Two SPs modes could be coupled in the 0^th diffraction order where the injected in-plane wavevectors from the QW structures can always meet SPR conditions. This results in increasing the SPs coupling efficiency up to 100 times higher than in case of indirect SPs injection.

OCIS Codes
(170.4520) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical confinement and manipulation
(230.0230) Optical devices : Optical devices
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(290.0290) Scattering : Scattering

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: May 8, 2009
Revised Manuscript: June 2, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: June 3, 2009
Published: June 5, 2009

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Vol. 4, Iss. 8 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Dominic Lepage and Jan J. Dubowski, "Surface plasmon effects induced by uncollimated emission of semiconductor microstructures," Opt. Express 17, 10411-10418 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-12-10411

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H. Raether, "Surface-Plasmons on smooth and rough surfaces and on gratings," Springer Tracts in Mod.Phys. 111, 1-133 (1988).
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Appl. Phys. Lett.

D. Lepage, and J. J. Dubowski, "Surface plasmon assisted photoluminescence in GaAs-AlGaAs quantum well microstructures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 163106 (2007). [CrossRef]
E. Takeda, T. Nakamura, M. Fujii, S. Miura, and S. Hayashi, "Surface plasmon polariton mediated photoluminescence from excitons in silicon nanocrystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 101907 (2006). [CrossRef]

J. Appl. Phys.

D. Amans, S. Callard, A. Gagnaire, J. Joseph, G. Ledoux, and F. Huisken, "Ellipsometric study of silicon nanocrystal optical constants," J. Appl. Phys. 93, 4173-4179 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Mod. Opt.

G. V. Prakash, M. Cazzanelli, Z. Gaburro, L. Pavesi, F. Iacona, G. Franzo, and F. Priolo, "Linear and nonlinear optical properties of plasma-enhanced chemical-vapour deposition grown silicon nanocrystals," J. Mod. Opt. 49, 719-730 (2002). [CrossRef]

J. Opt.

L. Mashev, and E. Popov, "Reflection gratings in conical diffraction mounting," J. Opt. 18, 3-7 (1987). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.

L. F. Li, "Fourier modal method for crossed anisotropic gratings with arbitrary permittivity and permeability tensors," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5, 345-355 (2003) [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A

M. G. Moharam, D. A. Pommet, E. B. Grann, and T. K. Gaylord, "Stable implementation of the rigorous coupled-wave analysis for surface-relief gratings-enhanced transmittance matrix approach," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 1077-1086 (1995). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

S. Patskovsky, M. Vallieres, M. Maisonneuve, I. H. Song, M. Meunier, and A. V. Kabashin, "Designing efficient zero calibration point for phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensing," Opt. Express 17, 2255-2263 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys.

H. Raether, "Surface-Plasmons on smooth and rough surfaces and on gratings," Springer Tracts in Mod.Phys. 111, 1-133 (1988).

Phys. Rev. B

M.-L. Thèye, "Investigation of the Optical Properties of Au by Means of Thin Semitransparent Films," Phys. Rev. B 2, 3060-3078 (1970). [CrossRef]

Other

R. B. M. Schasfoort, and A. J. Tudos, Handbook of surface plasmon resonance (R. Soc. of Chem., Cambridge, 2008). [CrossRef]
J. Hench, and Z. Strakos, "The RCWA method - a case study with open questions and perspectives of algebraic computations," to appear in ETNA (2009).
E. D. Palik, Handbook of optical constants of solids (Academic Press, Orlando, 1985).

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