Dissertations / Theses: 'Plasmon surface polariton'

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Gazzaz, Kholoud Khalid. "Biosensing Performance of Surface Plasmon Polariton Bragg Gratings." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31293.

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Surface plasmon biosensors have raised much interest over the past few decades for their potential in biosensing applications. This thesis investigates the plasmon-polariton Bragg grating, which is a novel structure that supports surface plasmon modes. Plasmon-polariton Bragg gratings PPBGs consist of metal stripes embedded in Cytop. A number of designs were investigated to evaluate the biosensing capabilities of the device. The biosensing performance was studied for both bulk and surface sensitivities via wavelength interrogation. The biosensing study was conducted by observing changes in the effective refractive indices of the supported modes by changing the index of the sensing solution for bulk sensitivity, and by changing the thickness of the adlayer that represents the binding of the target analyte to the sensing surface for surface sensitivity. A theoretical assessment of the achievable sensitivity and detection limit for PPBGs is conducted via two approaches, wavelength and output power interrogation.

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Oleksiy, Krupin. "Biosensing Using Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polariton Waveguides." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34210.

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Specific detection of biological matter is one of the key elements in a wide range of modern fields such as food industry, medicine, environmental and pharmaceutical industries. Generally, current common methods of detection (e.g. ELISA) involve molecular labelling, requirements for well-trained personnel and lengthy experimental procedures such as bacteria culture. All of the above issues result in high costs for biological analysis, and consequently, high costs for medical service, therapeutic drugs and various food products. Biosensors, on the other hand, can provide quick and cheap solutions to these problems. The field of optical biosensors is dominated by the method of surface plasmon resonance, which so far has attracted a lot of attention in the pharmaceutical industry. Investigation of long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides as an application for biosensing is still very novel, and most of it exists in the venue of theoretical discussions and modelling. The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the capability of the novel optical biosensor based on plasmonic waveguides to selectively detect various biological entities in solutions. The experiments were conducted on photolithographically fabricated sensors consisting of straight gold waveguides embedded in low-refractive index fluoropolymer CYTOP and a microfluidic channel. As a proof-of-concept, a demonstration of basic sensing experiments such as detection of change in refractive index of bulk solution and non-specific adsorption of bovine serum albumin is provided. Further investigation of the sensor capabilities involved specific detection of human red blood cells and leukemia markers. Red blood cell detection was based on ABO blood grouping and included the estimation of limit of detection and signal-to-noise ratio for single cell detection. Finally, a clinically relevant problem of B-cell leukemia marker detection was targeted. The sensor demonstrated the ability to detect the relative abundance of similar proteins (immunoglobulin kappa and lambda) in a complex fluid (human serum). In addition, an experimental study on the optimization of the sensor for sensitivity was conducted.

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Wedge, Stephen. "Surface plasmon-polariton mediated emission of light through thin metal films." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407303.

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Cilwa, Katherine Elizabeth. "Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Single Dust Particles." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1301074124.

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Heidel, Timothy David. "Surface plasmon polariton mediated energy transfer from external antennas into organic photovoltaic cells." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41608.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-52).
Despite significant improvements in the performance of organic photovoltaic devices in recent years, the tradeoff between light absorption and charge separation efficiency remains pervasive; increasing light absorption by increasing the device thickness leads to a decrease in exciton diffusion efficiency and vice versa. In this thesis, I demonstrate organic solar cells with an external light absorbing antenna. Light is absorbed by the external antenna and subsequently transferred into the photovoltaic cell via surface plasmon polariton modes in an interfacial thin silver contact. By decoupling the optical and electrical functions of the cell, this new architecture has the potential to circumvent the tradeoff between light absorption and charge separation efficiency. Non-radiative energy transfer is discussed and modeling finds that efficient energy transfer is mediated by surface plasmon polaritons. Devices with two very different antenna systems are demonstrated experimentally. Antennas with high photoluminescence efficiency are found to exhibit energy transfer efficiencies of approximately 50% while strongly absorbing antennas exhibit increases in photocurrent as high as 700% when compared to devices with non-functioning antennas even with very low photoluminescence efficiencies near 4%. These results suggest that this new device architecture could lead to significantly higher power conversion efficiencies by allowing the independent optimization of the optical and electrical components of organic photovoltaic cells.
by Timothy David Heidel.
M.Eng.

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Abbott, Stephen Barnes. "Energy transfer between surface plasmon polariton modes with hybrid photorefractive liquid crystal cells." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/210379/.

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In this thesis, a hybrid photorefractive liquid crystal cell structure with the addition of a thin 40nm Gold layer is proposed that demonstrates significant photorefractive control of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP). The photorefractive effects are generated through optically controlling the conductivity of a ~100nm photoconducting poly-N-vinyl-carboxyl (PVK) layer. Therefore, when a potential is applied across the cell, the liquid crystal alignment and the SPP wavevector is able to be controlled with light. The aim for developing this device is for the eventual demonstration of SPP gain to offset the high optical losses and increase the characteristically short propagation length of SPP. The mechanism we intend to use to demonstrate gain is analogous to the asymmetric energy transfer in a wave mixing system for two laser beams used to typically characterise photorefractive materials. We first characterise the electrical and optical behaviour of the novel photorefractive plasmonic structure proposed with uniform illumination. Our system demonstrates a good photorefractive wavevector shift of 0.207μm-1 for a 1.24eV SPP; this shift is in excess of the FWHM of the SPP resonance in the attenuated total reflection spectrum (0.154μm-1). However, the electric behaviour of the system is found to be highly complex and cannot be fully characterised by an equivalent electrical circuit. In addition, due to electronic stability issues, we require a slow AC potential to demonstrate consistent photorefractive effects. In a step towards realising SPP gain, we then consider the SPP interaction with a refractive index grating written into the liquid crystal layer with the interference pattern of crossed laser beams. We find that a SPP is diffracted into additional SPP modes. Our investigation then determines the ideal parameters that maximise the energy transfer by examining the diffraction efficiency dependence of each variable of the system. The maximum energy transfer observed is 25.3±2.3% for a 1.05eV SPP from a 4μm grating. With the assistance of a numerical simulation of our system we present a series of qualitative and semi-analytical descriptions to describe the mechanisms behind the observed trends. We discover that the diffraction efficiency is dependent of three important effects; the orientation of the grating, the penetration depth of the SPP into the liquid crystal and the magnitude of the periodic electric field in the liquid crystal. In addition, to fully describe the quantitative values observed we must also consider the presence of a thin 100nm region of the liquid crystal near the photoconductor interface that does not strongly respond to the applied electric field due to anchoring forces

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Renger, Jan. "Excitation, Interaction, and Scattering of Localized and Propagating Surface Polaritons." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1153478195966-65404.

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Surface polaritons, i.e., collective oscillations of the surface charges, strongly influence the optical response at the micro- and nanoscale and have to be accounted for in modern nanotechnology. Within this thesis, certain basic phenomena involving surface polaritons are investigated by means of the semianalytical multiple-multipole (MMP) method. The results are compared to experiments. In the first part, the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of metal nanoparticles is analyzed. This resonant collective oscillation of the free electrons in a metallic nanoparticle leads to an enhancement and confinement of the local electric field at optical frequencies. The local electric field can be further increased by tailoring the shape of the particle or by using near-field-interacting dimers or trimers of gold nanospheres. The hot spots found under such conditions increase the sensitivity of surface-enhanced Raman scattering by several orders of magnitude and simultaneously reduce the probed volume, thereby providing single-molecule sensitivity. The sub-wavelength-confined strong electromagnetic field associated with a SPR provides the basis for scattering-type near-field optical microscopy or tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, where the metal particle serves as a probe that is scanned laterally in the vicinity of a substrate. The presence of the latter causes a characteristic shift of the SPR towards lower frequencies. This effect originates in the near-field interaction of the surface charges on the objects. Furthermore, the excitation of higher-order modes becomes possible in case of an excitation by a strongly inhomogeneous wave, such as an evanescent wave. These modes may significantly contribute to the near field but have only very little influence on the far-field signature. Instead of using resonant probes, one may place a nonresonant probe in the vicinity of a substrate having a high density of electromagnetic surface states. This also produces a resonance of the light scattering by the system. Especially polar crystals, such as the investigated silicon carbide, feature such a high density of surface phonon polariton states in the mid-infrared spectral region, which can be excited due to the near-field interaction with a polarized particle. Thereby, a resonance is created leading to a strong increase of the electric field at the interface. In the second part of the thesis, special emphasis is put on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Such propagating surface waves can be excited directly by plane waves only at patterned interfaces. This process is studied for the case of a groove. The groove breaks the translational invariance, so that the SPPs can be launched locally at the edges of the groove. Additionally, the mode(s) inside the groove are excited. These modes can basically be understood as metal-insulator-metal cavity modes. Their dispersion strongly depends on the groove width. The cavity behavior caused by the finite depth provides another degree of freedom for optimizing the SPP excitation by plane waves. Thin metallic films deposited on glass offer two different SPP waveguide modes, each of which can be addressed preferentially by a proper choice of the width of the groove. The reflection, transmission, scattering, and the conversion of the modes at discontinuities such as edges, steps, barriers, and grooves can be controlled by appropriately designing the geometry at the nanoscale. Furthermore, the excitation of SPPs at single and multiple slits in thin-film metal waveguides on glass and their propagation and scattering is shown by scanning near-field optical experiments. Such waveguide structures offer a means for transporting light in a confined way. Especially triangularly shaped waveguides can be used to guide light in sub-wavelength spaces
Die Wechselwirkung von elektromagnetischer Strahlung mit subwellenlängenkleinen Teilchen bzw. Oberflächenstrukturen ermöglicht nicht nur eine Miniaturisierung optischer Geräte, sondern erlaubt sehr interessante Anwendungen, beispielsweise in der Sensorik und Nahfeldoptik. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die zu Grunde liegenden Effekte im Rahmen der klassischen Elektrodynamik mit Hilfe der semianalytischen Methode der multiplen Multipole (MMP) analysiert, und die Ergebnisse werden mit Experimenten verglichen. Im ersten Teil werden Oberflächenplasmonenresonanzen (engl. surface plasmon resonance - SPR) einzelner und wechselwirkender Metallteilchen untersucht. Die dabei auftretende resonante kollektive Schwingung der freien Elektronen des Partikels bewirkt eine deutliche Erhöhung und Lokalisierung des elektromagnetischen Feldes in seiner Umgebung. Die spektrale Position und die Stärke der SPR eines Nanoteilchens, die von dessen geometrischer Form, Permittivität und Umgebung abhängen, können nur im Grenzfall sehr kleiner Teilchen elektrostatisch beschrieben werden, wohingegen der verwendete semianalytische MMP-Ansatz weitaus flexibler ist und insbesondere auch auf größere Partikel, Teilchen mit komplizierterer Form bzw. Ensembles von Partikeln anwendbar ist. Die betrachteten einzelnen kleinen (< Wellenlänge) Goldkügelchen und Silberellipsoide besitzen eine stark ausgeprägte SPR im sichtbaren optischen Bereich. Diese ist auf eine dipolartige Polarisierung des Teilchens zurückzuführen. Höhere Moden der Polarisation können entweder als Folge von Retardierungseffekten an größeren (mit der Wellenlänge vergleichbaren) Teilchen oder bei der Verwendung inhomogener (z.B. evaneszenter) Wellen angeregt werden. Partikel, die sich in der Nähe eines Substrates befinden, unterliegen der Nahfeldwechselwirkung zwischen den (lichtinduzierten) Oberflächenladungen auf der Oberfläche des Teilchens und des Substrats. Dies führt zu einer Verschiebung der SPR zu niedrigeren Frequenzen und einer Erhöhung des lokalen elektrischen Feldes. Letzteres bildet die Grundlage z.B. der spitzenverstärkten Raman-Spektroskopie und der optischen Nahfeldmikroskopie mit Streulichtdetektion. Dasselbe Prinzip bewirkt ein stark überhöhtes elektrisches Feld zwischen miteinander wechselwirkenden Nanopartikeln, welches z.B. die Sensitivität der oberflächenverstärkten Raman-Mikroskopie um mehrere Größenordnungen steigern kann. Im Gegensatz zur SPR einzelner Nanopartikel kann die Resonanz der Lichtstreuung im Fall eines Partikels in der Nähe eines Substrats aus der durch die Nahfeldwechselwirkung induzierten Anregung elektromagnetischer Oberflächenzustände entstehen. Diese wirken ihrerseits auf das Nanopartikel zurück, wobei eine resonante Lichtstreuung beobachtbar ist. Dieser, am Beispiel einer metallischen Nahfeldsonde über einem Siliziumcarbid-Substrat analysierte, Effekt ermöglicht bei einer ganzen Klasse von polaren Kristallen interessante Anwendungen in der Mikroskopie und Sensorik basierend auf der hohen Dichte von Oberflächenphononpolaritonen dieser Kristalle im mittleren infraroten Spektralbereich und deren nahfeldinduzierten Anregung. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden kollektive Anregungen von Elektronen an Metalloberflächen untersucht. Die dabei auftretenden plasmonischen Oberflächenwellen (engl. surface plasmon polaritons - SPPs) weisen einen exponentiellen Abfall der Intensität senkrecht zur Grenzfläche auf. Diese starke Lokalisierung der Energie an der Oberfläche bildet die Grundlage vieler Anwendungen, z.B. im Bereich der hochempfindlichen Detektion (bio)chemischer Verbindungen oder für eine zweidimensionale Optik (engl. plasmonics). Das Aufheben der Translationsinvarianz längs der Oberfläche ermöglicht die direkte Anregung von SPPs durch ebene Wellen. Die Abhängigkeit dieser Kopplung von der Geometrie wird am Beispiel eines Nanograbens untersucht. Dabei werden neben den SPPs ebenfalls eine oder mehrere Moden im Graben angeregt. Folglich ermöglicht die geeignete Wahl der Grabengeometrie die Optimierung der Umwandlung von ebenen Wellen in SPPs. Im - in der Praxis weit verbreiteten - Fall asymmetrisch eingebetteter metallischer Dünnschichtwellenleiter existieren zwei Moden. In Abhängigkeit von der Grabenbreite kann die eine oder die andere Mode bevorzugt angeregt werden. Die Analyse der Wechselwirkung von SPPs mit Oberflächenstrukturen, z.B. Kanten, Stufen, Barrieren und Gräben, zeigt die Möglichkeit der Steuerung der Reflexions-, Transmissions- und Abstrahleigenschaften durch die gezielte Wahl der Geometrie der "Oberflächendefekte" auf der Nanoskala und deckt die zu Grunde liegenden Mechanismen und die daraus resultierenden Anforderungen bei der Herstellung neuer plasmonischer Komponenten auf. Exemplarisch wird das Prinzip der SPP-Anregung an einzelnen und mehreren Gräben in dünnen metallischen Filmen sowie der subwellenlängen Feldlokalisierung an sich verjüngenden metallischen Dünnschichtwellenleitern unter Verwendung der optischen Nahfeldmikroskopie experimentell gezeigt

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Achlan, Moustafa. "Surface Plasmon Polariton and Wave Guide Modes in a Six Layer Thin Film Stack." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLS109.

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Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les propriétés optiques d'un système multicouche (air-Au-SiO₂-Au-Ti-verre). Les interfaces sont planes et la modélisation est réalisée en utilisant les coefficients de Fresnel à l'interface et la propagation d'ondes planes dans les couches. Deux modèles sont utilisés où l'échantillon est : i) excité par une source à l'infini ; ii) excité par une source locale. Dans l'expérience que nous avons modélisée l'empilement est excité par les électrons tunnel inélastiques dans un microscope à effet tunnel (STM). Dans le modèle, le courant tunnel inélastique est remplacé par un dipôle oscillant vertical. En utilisant ces modèles, nous avons calculé les flux réfléchis (reflectance) et transmis (transmittance) d'une source de lumière à l'infini et le flux transmis de l'excitation locale. La reflectance, transmittance et le flux transmis montrent des modes plasmoniques (surface plasmon polaritons (SPP)) et photoniques (guide d'onde (WG)). A des longueurs d'onde particulières, les courbes de dispersion des SPP et WG présentent un croisement évité. Le choix des épaisseurs d'or et de silice a deux contraintes: une amplitude importante des observables et une large dépendance en longueurs d'onde du vecteur d'onde dans le plan. Nous étudions aussi l'influence des épaisseurs sur les observables. Nous avons trouvé que les observables ont des amplitudes importantes à pour une épaisseur d'or de [10, 90 nm] pour l'empilement de trois couches et de [10, 50 nm] pour celui de six couches. Les modes de guide d'onde apparaissent pour une épaisseur de la couche de silice de >190 nm. Afin de caractériser la localisation du champ dans l'empilement et déterminer la nature du mode, nous avons calculé le champ électrique en fonction de la coordonnée de pénétration z. Nous avons trouvé que pour le mode SPP le champ est localisé à l'interface Au-air, tandis que le champ électrique du guide d'onde est confiné dans la couche de silice. Les résultats théoriques présentés sont en bon accord avec les résultats des études expérimentales menées dans notre groupe
In this thesis, we investigate the optical properties of a six-layer stack (air-Au-SiO₂-Au-Ti-glass). The interfaces are flat and the modeling is performed using elementary Fresnel expressions at the interface and plane wave propagation in the layers. Two models are used where the sample is: i) excited by a source at infinity (excitation by source at infinity (ESI)); ii) excited by a local source. In the experiments we are modeling this source consists of the inelastic tunneling electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In our modeling this source is replaced by a vertical oscillating dipole. Using these two models one calculates the reflected (reflectance) and the transmitted (transmittance) flux from a source at infinity and the transmitted flux of a local source. Surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and wave guide (WG) modes may be identified in the reflectance, transmittance and transmitted flux. In a particular wavelength domain the SPP and WG repel each other giving rise to an avoided crossing. The choice of the gold (Au) and silica (SiO₂) thicknesses of the six-layer stack is guided by two requirements: high amplitude of the observable and wide wavelength dependence of the in-plane wave vector. We also study the influence of the gold and silica thicknesses on the observables. We find that the observables are significant for dAu[10, 90 nm] for the three and dAu[10, 50 nm] for six layer stacks and this predictive study guided the choice of the experimental sample thicknesses. The wave guide mode appears for dSiO₂ >190 nm. The electric field as a function of the penetration coordinate z is calculated in order to characterize the location of the field in the stack and to assign the nature of the modes. We observe that for the SPP the electric field is confined at the Au-air interface whereas, the electric fields corresponding to the WG mode are confined inside SiO₂ layer. Our calculations presented in this work are in good agreement with the experimental measurements performed in our group

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Hassan, Sa'ad. "Microfabrication of Plasmonic Device: PPBG BIosensor in Cytop, Reflection Itensity Modulator and Atomically Flat Nanohole Array." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32324.

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This thesis details the fabrication of three different plasmon-polariton based devices: a plasmon-polariton Bragg grating (PPBG) biosensor, an intensity modulator incorporating grating couplers, and optically separated electrical contact, and finally an array of nanoholes in an ultrasmooth Au film. The biosensor involves a 35 nm Au stripe, lithographically stepped in width to produce a Bragg reflector. The waveguide is embedded in symmetric, Cytop claddings 8 µm thick. Channels are etched into the top cladding, exposing the waveguides and allowing for the integration of fluidics. The modulator involves a 20 nm Au pad, overlaid with 80 nm Au diffraction gratings, supported by an ultrathin (~3 nm) SiO2 insulator, on a p-doped Silicon wafer backed by an Al Ohmic contact. Electrical contact pads are separated from the waveguide by a thick dielectric (700 nm PMMA), and 2.5 µm vias in-filled with Au allow for electrical connection between the contact pads and waveguides. The nanohole array is machined by focused ion beam into an ultrasmooth Au film revealed by template stripping. The Au film is stacked on a thick film of Cytop between ~5 µm thick.

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Fan, Hui. "Passive and Thermo-Optic Characterization of Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polariton Structures in CYTOP." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19807.

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Long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides fabricated of gold, cladded with CYTOP, designed to be 5μm wide and 35nm thick, were modelled and fabricated by other researchers and tested by the author. In passive measurements, cutback curves were drawn and S-bends, Y-junctions, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and couplers were tested. Results show that the fabricated waveguide thicknesses are inconsistent and thinner than designed, and improvement of their fabrication quality is necessary. In thermo-optic measurements, electric currents were injected heating the waveguides and changing the refractive index of the claddings. Electromigration were characterized and the conclusion was that the waveguides can work under the current density 70GA/m2. Mode extinction experiments were made and as one waveguide was repeatedly tested its mode extinction threshold gradually decreased due to heat accumulation and CYTOP glass-transition. 2.5mA was safe to prevent mode extinction in the first 12 experiments. The optical response time was also measured and discussed.

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Fan, Hui. "Thermo-Optic and Refractometric Performance of Long-Range Surface Plasmon Multiple-Output Mach-Zehnder Interferometers." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35049.

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Long-range surface plasmon-polaritons are transverse-magnetic polarized optical surface waves formed through the interaction of photons with free electrons at the surface of metal slabs or stripes. They play important roles in a variety of field such as integrated optics, amplifiers and lasers, optical sensing, modulation, etc. Due to their longer propagation length and deeper penetration depth compared to those of single-interface surface plasmon-polaritons, they have become increasingly promising in optical sensing. In sensing applications, it is necessary to reduce the noise level in order to obtain a lower detection limit. One way to achieve this is to use dual- or triple-output Mach-Zehnder interferometers so that the common perturbations among the outputs can be suppressed. The objective of this thesis is to provide deeper insights on the performances of dual- and triple-output Mach-Zehnder interferometers in thermo-optic and optical bulk sensing applications, theoretically and experimentally, and to demonstrate their ability to suppress common perturbations and lower the detection limit. On the theoretical side, the objective is approached by constructing a model for the transfer characteristic. For dual-output Mach-Zehnder interferometers, the plane-wave model is used to develop a general model for thermo-optic sensing and an unbalanced model for optical bulk sensing. For triple-output ones, local normal mode theory is used with modal analysis for the 3×3 coupler portion of the structure. Quantitative methods to analyze and compare different detection schemes are developed. The minimum detectable phase shift is determined for the case of thermo-optic sensing while the detection limit is determined for optical bulk sensing. On the experimental side, the objective is approached by providing a direct experimental demonstration of the transfer characteristics at an optimized operating wavelength for the coupler portion of the device, then comparing to theory. Time traces are carried out and various detection schemes are applied to suppress common perturbations among the outputs, and to improve the minimum detectable phase shift or the detection limit.

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Schneider, Christian [Verfasser]. "Mapping of surface plasmon polariton fields by time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy: experiments, simulations, and applications / Christian Schneider." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1043892516/34.

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Zalavadia, Ajaykumar. "A Broadly Tunable Surface Plasmon-Coupled Wavelength Filter for Visible and Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1522253688346498.

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Almousa, Shaikhah F. "Extraordinary Optical Transmission in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Devices at Terahertz Frequencies." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1493566948712806.

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Silva, Otavio de Brito. "Interação entre plasmons polaritons de superfície e íons de Érbio em matrizes de vidros óxidos teluritos via conversão ascendente." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/76/76131/tde-11102017-153834/.

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O confinamento da luz em escala nanométrica, em especial para estruturas metálicas, é conferido graças à ação coletiva dos elétrons livres desses materiais que ao entrarem em ressonância com a frequência da radiação incidente geram campos intensos o suficiente para permitir que uma parcela da luz atravesse as cavidades que formam as estruturas, desafiando os limites clássicos da óptica impostos pela teoria escalar da difração. Designa-se a tal ação coletiva dos elétrons na literatura como plasmons polaritons de superfície, ou SPP da sigla em inglês para Surface Plasmon Polariton, conceito há muito estudado em Física do Estado Sólido. Porém, somente a algumas décadas com o domínio sobre a fabricação de estruturas em escala nanométrica, tornou-se possível a análise experimental e a contribuição de SPP na observação de fenômenos em nano-óptica. A ressonância de plasmons em nanoestruturas confere considerável sensibilidade ao índice de refração dos meios próximos a elas, o que abre mais um canal para estudos no campo da interação entre radiação-matéria. Dentre eles há interação de plasmons com íons de terras-raras (ITR). Estes últimos por apresentarem bandas de absorção estreitas e bem definidas, são excelentes opções como elementos na análise da interação destes com os SPPs gerados nas nanoestruturas. Uma maneira de estabelecer o contato direto entre o campo plasmônico e os ITRs é incorpora-los ao substrato no qual o filme metálico onde as nanoestruturas são fabricadas é depositado. Vidros óxidos à base de Telúrio e Germânio reúnem condições favoráveis para esse propósito, por terem alta solubilidade às terras-raras, janela de transparência relativamente larga (0,4 - 5μm) podendo ser analisados desde o visível até o infravermelho e baixa energia de fônon. O presente trabalho consistiu no esforço de criar uma plataforma para estudo direto de interações SPP com o ITR a partir da nano fabricação via técnica de feixe de íons e medir a luz emitida por processo de conversão ascendente do Érbio diretamente pela nanoestrutura devido ao decaimento do íon em SPP e na consequente remissão através da transmissão óptica extraordinária (TOE). A partir de tais medidas há fortes evidências de que a radiação emitida pelo Érbio apresenta a mesma polarização do campo plasmônico originado nas nanoestruturas.
The confinement of light at the nanoscale, especially for metallic structures is achieved due the collective action of free electrons from the material that resonate with the frequency of the incident radiation, generating enhanced fields enough to allow a portion of the light to cross the cavities that form such structures, challenging the classical limits of optics imposed by the scalar diffraction theory. Such collective action of the electrons is known in the literature as surface plasmon polariton (SPP), a concept which has already been studied in Solid State Physics, but only a few decades ago, with the development of fabrication of nanoscale structures has enabled the experimental analysis and the contribution due SPP on the observation of nanoptics phenomena. The plasmon resonance from nanostructures offers considerable sensitivity to the refractive index from the media that surround them, which opens another topic in matter-radiation interaction. There are interactions of plasmons with rare earth ions (REI). The latter class of emitters, presents narrow and well-defined absorption bands, which make them excellent options as probes to the analysis of interaction with the SPPs generated in the nanostructures. To establish direct contact between the plasmonic field and the REIs consists in embedding them into the substrate for the metallic thin film where the structures are assembled. Tellurium and Germanium oxide based glasses gather the conditions for this purpose, because they present high solubility to rare earths, a relatively wide transparency window (0.4 - 5 μm), which enables spectral analysis from visible to infrared, and low phonon energy. The present work consisted in the effort to create a direct platform to study the SPP interactions with the REI from the milling of the samples by ion beam technique; to measure the light emitted from the Erbium\'s upconversion process directly through the nanostructure due the ion decay to SPP and in the consequent remission by extraordinary optical transmission (EOT). From such measurements there are strong evidences that the radiation emitted by Erbium ions presents the same polarization from the plasmonic field originated in nanostructures.

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Cilwa, Katherine E. "Surface Plasmons Polaritons and Single Dust Particles." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304532704.

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Lozan, Olga. "Surface plasmons and hot electrons imaging with femtosecond pump-probe thermoreflectance." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0021/document.

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Ce travail est consacré à l’étude de la dynamique ultrarapide d’électrons chauds photo-excité dans des structures plasmonique. L’intérêt particulier de ce domaine réside dans le fait que les SPs, en raison de leurs caractéristiques spatio-temporelles spécifique, offrent un nouvel attrait technologique pour les processus de transport d’information ultra-rapide aux nano-échelles. Dans ce contexte, ce manuscrit offre une compréhension et une exploitation de l’une des principales limitations des technologies à base de SP : les pertes par effet Joule. Nous exploitons le fait que le mécanisme d’absorption des plasmons dans les métaux est suivi par la génération d’électrons chauds à l’échelle femtoseconde, ainsi les pertes peuvent être considrées comme une conversion d’énergie plasmon-électrons chauds. Cette conversion d’énergie est mesurée à l’aide d’une technique pompe-sonde laser femtoseconde. Nous lançons des impulsions SP que nous sondons sur des centaines de femtosecondes grace aux variations de permittivité diélectrique induites par le gaz d’électrons chaud accompagnant la propagation de SP. Le profil de température électronique est par conséquent une image de la distribution de densité de puissance de plasmon (absorption) non élargi spatialement et temporellement par diffusion de porteurs d’énergie. Nous avons pu démontrer la capacité de relier la mesure de température électronique à l’absorption du SP, révélant une absorption anormale autour d’une fente nanométrique. Les résultats expérimentaux sont en accord quantitatif avec les prédictions théoriques de la distribution de densité de puissance. Dans une seconde partie, nous avons étudié les pertes plasmoniques et leurs caractéristiques lors de sa propagation sur un film métallique semi-infini. Nous avons déterminé la vitesse de l’onde thermique électronique et son atténuation. Dans la dernière partie, nous utilisons une structure en pointe pour guider adiabatiquement et focaliser le plasmon à l’extrémité. Nous avons démontré ainsi la génération d’un point chaud nanométrique et avons mis en évidence un retard dans l’échauffement des électrons à l’extrémité de la pointe. Les perspectives et les questions ouvertes sont également discutées
In this work we explored the ultrafast dynamics of photo-excited hot electrons in plasmonic structures. The particular interest of this field resides on the fact surface plasmons (SP), because of their unrivaled temporal and spatial characteristics, provide a technological route for ultrafast information processes at the nanoscale. In this context, this manuscript provides a comprehension and the harnessing of one of the major limitation of the SP-based technologies : absorption losses by Joule heating. We exploit the fact that the mechanism of plasmon absorption in metals is followed by generation of hot electrons at femtosecond time scale, thus losses can be seen as a plasmon-to-hot-electron energy conversion. This energy conversion is measured with femtosecond pump-probe technique. Femtosecond SP pulses are launched and probed over hundred femtoseconds through the permittivity variations induced by the hot-electron gas and which accompany the SP propagation. The measured electron temperature profile is therefore an image of plasmon power density distribution (absorption) not broadened spatially and temporally by energy carrier diffusion. As an important result we demonstrated the capability to link the electronic temperature measurement to the plasmonic absorption, revealing an anomalous light absorption for a sub- slit surroundings, in quantitative agreement with predictions of the power density distribution. In a second part we studied plasmon losses and their characteristics when they propagate on semi-infinite metal film. We determined the electronic thermal wave velocity and damping. In the last part we used a focusing taper-structure to adiabatically guide and focus the plasmon at the apex. Was demonstrated the generation of a nanoscale hot spot and put in evidence a delayed electron heating at the taper apex. Perspectives and the remaining open questions are also discussed

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Xie, Yong. "Transmission Properties of Sub-Wavelength Metallic Slits and Their Applications." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195217.

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With the manufacture of nano-scale features in the last ten years, it is possible to do optical experiments on features as small as a tenth/hundredth wavelength. It turns out that the experimental data cannot be explained by classical diffraction theories. Thus, it is necessary to develop new methods or use existing approaches which are effective in other fields, to solve problems in photonics. We use finite difference time domain (FDTD), to study transmission properties of sub-wavelength slits in a metallic film. By doing simulations on periodic and single slits, we confirm that the TE mode has a cutoff while a TM mode always has a propagating mode in the small apertures. Then we find that the transmittance is minimum when the array period is equal to the wavelength of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) at normal incidence. In fact, the SPP-like waves exist in both periodic and isolated slits, and they help the transmittance of small apertures. In order to establish the role of SPP in the transmission mechanism, it is necessary to single out each mode from the total fields. We developed Bloch mode method (BMM) to calculate the amplitudes of the lowest N orders, and the amplitudes tell us which one is dominant (not including the guided mode) at high and low transmission. BMM converges very fast and it is more accurate than FDTD since it does not suffer from numerical dispersion. Both methods can resolve the Wood anomaly and SPP anomaly; however, FDTD converges very slowly at the SPP resonance and oscillates around the value obtained through BMM at the Wood anomaly. BMM is not sensitive to material types, incident angles, and anomalies; it will be a useful tool to investigate similar problems.

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Peragut, Florian. "Imagerie et spectroscopie super-résolues dans l'infrarouge." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066080.

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Nous couplons des sources de rayonnement infrarouge et un spectromètre à transformée de Fourier (FTIR) avec un microscope optique en champ proche (SNOM) à pointe diffusante pour sonder les propriétés optiques locales de la matière avec une résolution spatiale sub-longueur d'onde.Nous étudions l'émission thermique de champ proche d'un échantillon constitué d'une couche d'or recouvrant partiellement du carbure de silicium, puis d'un empilement de nano-couches semi-conductrices. Nous révélons expérimentalement la présence d'ondes de surface se propageant aux différentes interfaces de ces échantillons, en imagerie et en spectroscopie. Nous sondons l'évolution spatiale du spectre de la densité locale d'états électromagnétiques grâce à l'imagerie hyperspectrale super-résolue de l'émission thermique de champ proche. Nous montrons que la résolution spatiale et le contraste entre les structures diminuent lorsque la distance à laquelle la sonde effectue les balayages augmente.Nous couplons notre SNOM et un FTIR avec le rayonnement synchrotron et démontrons la capacité d'un tel couplage de mener des études de nanospectroscopie dans l'infrarouge moyen en l'illustrant sur les échantillons précédemment mentionnés. Nous démontrons l'imagerie térahertz super-résolue à l'aide du rayonnement synchrotron.Nous étudions expérimentalement l'influence de l'illumination sur les images obtenues en SNOM et montrons que la détection de l'émission thermique de champ proche permet d'obtenir des images exemptes de distorsions et donc plus simples à interpréter que celles obtenues en utilisant un laser monochromatique ou l'émission thermique de champ lointain. Nous développons un mode d'imagerie 3D
We couple infrared sources with a scattering near-field scanning optical microscope (SNOM) combined with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) in order to probe the local optical properties of matter with sub-wavelength spatial resolution. We study the near-field thermal emission of a surface made of silicon carbide and gold, and then of a semiconductor-based multilayer. We reveal experimentally the presence of surface waves propagating at the different interfaces of these samples, by imaging and spectroscopy. We probe the spatial evolution of the electromagnetic local density of states spectrum thanks to super-resolved hyperspectral imaging of the near-field thermal emission. We show that spatial resolution and contrast between the structures decrease as the distance at which the probe performs the scans increases. We couple our SNOM and FTIR with synchrotron radiation and demonstrate the capability of such coupling to perform nanospectroscopy studies in the mid-infrared range by investigating the samples mentioned above. We demonstrate super-resolved terahertz imaging using synchrotron radiation. We experimentally study the influence of the illumination on the images obtained in SNOM and show that the detection of the near-field thermal emission provides distortion-free images and therefore are easier to interpret than those obtained using a monochromatic laser source or far-field thermal emission. We also develop a 3D imaging technique

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Chevrier, Kevin. "Cohérence dans les systèmes métal/organique en couplage fort : états étendus et métasurfaces." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE1235.

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Cette thèse expérimentale prend place dans le domaine du couplage fort entre un mode électromagnétique et des matériaux actifs organiques. Dans ce régime, l’interaction lumière/matière est si importante que les états initiaux s’hybrident et donnent naissance à des états mixtes plasmon/exciton : les polaritons. Au-delà de modifier les énergies du système, le couplage fort induit des effets collectifs tel que la cohérence, couplant ainsi des émetteurs séparés spatialement et initialement indépendants. Les travaux de cette thèse ont pour but de contrôler et de manipuler l’extension spatiale de cet état cohérent pour réaliser des matériaux d’un nouveau type. La manipulation du couplage fort lumière/matière est abordée de deux manières dans cette thèse. La première est basée sur la modification du mode optique : nous avons fait la démonstration du régime de couplage fort entre l’exciton d’un émetteur organique de type J-agrégat et un plasmon à longue extension. Ce mode plasmonique particulier permet d’étendre l’extension du domaine de cohérence jusqu’à 50 µm. La seconde méthode consiste en une action sur la composante matière, c’est-à-dire le matériau actif. Nous avons ainsi mis en évidence un nouveau type de métasurface en structurant la couche excitonique à l’échelle du micromètre, inférieure à la longueur de cohérence mais supérieure d’un ordre de grandeur à la longueur d’onde. Des effets typiques de métasurfaces sont observés, tels qu’une réponse moyennée des constituants de la surface et une forte anisotropie générées par une structuration de la couche active dans la longueur de cohérence
This experimental thesis focuses on the manipulation and control of hybrid plasmon/exciton states. These states, called polaritons, build on the strong light/matter interaction. The strong coupling regime induces collective effects and coherence, by coupling emitters spatially separated and otherwise independents. The work conducted in this thesis aims to control and handle the spatial extension of the coherent states in order to create novel materials. Two approaches are exploited to impact the light/matter interaction. The first method is based on the improvement of the optical mode: we demonstrated the strong interaction between organic semiconductor (J-aggregate) excitons and long-range surface plasmons. This plasmonic mode allows to enhanced the extension of the coherent domain up to 50 µm. The second method acts on the active material. We evidenced a new type of metasurface based on a structuration of the excitonic layer at the micrometer scale: smaller than the coherent length but significantly larger than the wavelength. The typical metasurface effects, such as effective behavior and geometry sensitivity are highlighted. We use this feature to tailor the band structure and generate an important anisotropic effect associated with the geometry of the structuration, leading to controlled emission polarization

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Buller, Jakov. "Structure and Dynamics of Microcavity Exciton-Polaritons in Acoustic Square Lattices." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19328.

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Exziton-Polaritonen in Mikrokavitäten sind Quasi-Teilchen, die unter bestimmten physikalischen Konditionen kondensieren und damit in einen energetisch gleichen, gemeinsamen makroskopischen Quantenzustand (MQZ) übergehen können. Exziton-Polariton-Kondensate können mithilfe von akustischen Oberflächenwellen moduliert werden, um ihre Eigenschaften zu verändern. Dies ist insbesondere von großer Relevanz für zukünftige Anwendungen. In dieser Arbeit wurden die Struktur sowie die Dynamik der Exziton-Polariton-Kondensate in den durch die akustischen Oberflächenwellen erzeugten quadratischen Gittern untersucht. Es wurde dazu die Wellenfunktion der Exziton-Polariton-Kondensate im Rahmen der spektroskopischen und zeitaufgelösten Messungen im Orts- und Impulsraum abgebildet. Die MQZ wurden in einer optisch-parametrischen Oszillatorkonfiguration resonant angeregt. Die spektroskopischen Messungen zeigten, dass Exziton-Polariton-Kondensate in akustischen quadratischen Gittern aus unterschiedlichen MQZ, nämlich aus einem zwei-dimensionalen Gap-Soliton (2D GS) umgeben von mehreren ein-dimensionalen MQZ, und einem inkohärenten Strahlungshintergrund zusammengesetzt sind. Im Rahmen der zeitaufgelösten Experimente wurde die Dynamik der Wellenfunktion des 2D GS untersucht. Die zeitaufgelösten Ergebnisse zeigten, dass sowohl die Intensität der von dem 2D GS emittierten Photolumineszenz (PL) als auch die Kohärenzlänge des 2D GS zeitlich oszillieren. Die Intensität der PL und die Kohärenzlänge hängen von der Anregungsleistung, der Größe des Laserspots sowie von der relativen Position des akustischen Gitters und dem Laserspot ab. Im Ausblick dieser Arbeit wurde theoretisch die Anregung von Tamm-Plasmon/Exziton- Polaritonen (TPEP) sowie deren Modulation mithilfe von akustischen Oberflächenwellen diskutiert. TPEP entstehen durch die Superposition der in der Grenzschicht zwischen Mikrokavität und Metall angeregten Tamm-Plasmonen und den in der Mikrokavität erzeugten Exziton-Polaritonen.
Microcavity (MC) exciton-polaritons can form condensates, i.e. macroscopic quantum states (MQSs), as well under a periodic potential modulation. The modulation by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) provides a powerful tool for the formation of tunable lattices of MQSs in semiconductor MC. In this work, fundamental aspects of the structure and dynamics of exciton-polariton condensate in acoustic square lattices were investigated by probing its wavefunction in real- and momentum space using spectral- and time-resolved studies. The MQSs were resonantly excited in an optical parametric oscillator configuration. The tomographic study revealed that the exciton-polariton condensate structure self-organises in a concentric structure, which consists of a single, two-dimensional gap soliton (2D GS) surrounded by one-dimensional MQSs and an incoherent background. 2D GS size tends to saturate with increasing particle density. The experimental results are supported by a theoretical model based on the variational solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Time-resolved studies showed the evolution of the 2D GS wavefunction at the acoustic velocity. Interestingly, the photoluminescence (PL) intensity emitted by the 2D GS as well as its coherence length oscillate with time. The PL oscillation amplitude depends on the intensity and the size of the exciting laser spot, and increases considerably for excitation intensities close to the optical threshold power for the formation of the MQS. In the outlook, the formation of Tamm-Plasmon/Exciton-Polariton (TPEP) hybrid states and their modulation by SAWs was theoretically discussed. Here, the upper DBR is partly replaced by a thin metal layer placed on top of the MC. In this case, TPEP form by the superposition of Tamm plasmons at the metal-semiconductor interface and the exciton-polaritons in the MC.

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Ruan, Zhichao. "Dispersion Engineering : Negative Refraction and Designed Surface Plasmons in Periodic Structures." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Informations- och kommunikationsteknik, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4542.

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Walther, Roman Michael [Verfasser], and D. [Akademischer Betreuer] Gerthsen. "Surface Plasmon Polariton Mediated Coupling of Cavity Modes in Nanostructured Slit Arrays Analyzed by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy in a Transmission Electron Microscope / Roman Michael Walther. Betreuer: D. Gerthsen." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1068263288/34.

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Marquier, François. "Interaction des ondes de surface avec des microstructures périodiques : émission thermique cohérente et transmission résonante." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00010113.

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Certains matériaux ont des modes électromagnétiques confinés à leur surface, qui se
propagent le long de celle-ci. Ces modes, qui sont appelés ondes de surface, peuvent être couplés à des ondes propagatives à l'aide d'un réseau.
Nous avons utilisé un code de calcul électromagnétique exact, basé sur l'analyse rigoureuse des ondes couplées (RCWA), pour optimiser des structures périodiques dont les dimensions sont de l'ordre ou inférieures au micron. Nous avons ainsi conçu des micro ou nanostructures pour deux types d'applications : l'émission thermique cohérente, et la transmission résonante.
En émission, nous avons optimisé des sources thermiques émettant un rayonnement
quasi-monochromatique dans une direction privilégiée de l'espace ou bien dans toutes les directions. Nous avons de plus conçu, dimensionné et mis en place un montage de mesure de l'émissivité de telles sources. Nous avons pu retrouver de manière quantitative les résultats que nous avons obtenus numériquement, puis déterminer expérimentalement la longueur de cohérence spatiale de la source.
Le second axe de cette thèse a été consacré à la transmission résonante. Nous avons
mis en évidence les mécanismes de transmission de structures métalliques en montrant l'existence de modes propres de ces structures qui sont des modes couplant modes de surface et modes de cavité. En remontant aux caractéristiques de ces modes, nous pouvons en particulier retrouver toutes les caractéristiques des pics de transmission, hauteur, largeur et position. Nous avons par ailleurs montré que des effets analogues apparaissent pour des réseaux de cristaux polaires. Finalement, des études de transmission résonante par des cristaux 2D ont montré que des modes d'ordre élevé peuvent être fortement transmis. Ces modes sont faiblement couplés à des ondes planes mais peuvent se coupler fortement à des particules ou molécules.

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Grandidier, Jonathan. "Guide plasmonique polymère-métal : composants passifs et actifs pour la photonique intégrée." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00441225.

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Les guides d'onde plasmoniques induits par un ruban diélectrique (DLSPPWs pour "Dielectric Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides") permettent de transmettre à une échelle sub-longueur d'onde, des signaux électriques et plasmoniques (ondes optiques à l'interface entre un métal et un diélectrique) dans la même circuiterie. De plus, l'utilisation d'un ruban de polymère comme diélectrique permet de fonctionnaliser ces DLSPPWs. Cette configuration est par conséquent d'un grand intérêt pour des applications en photonique intégrée. Néanmoins, les DLSPPWs souffrent de pertes importantes en raison de la dissipation dans le métal. Nous abordons le problème en montrant qu'il est possible de compenser les pertes en utilisant une configuration analogue à celle d'un amplificateur optique. Nous mettons d'abord en place les outils théoriques (modèle de l'indice effectif), numériques (méthode différentielle et méthode de la fonction de Green) et expérimentaux (microscopie à fuites radiatives) adaptés à l'optimisation et la caractérisation des DLSPPWs. Une fois le confinement modal maximisé à la longueur d'onde telecom λ=1.55 µm, nous considérons un polymère dopé avec des boîtes quantiques. Le mode plasmon guidé dans le système polymère dopé-métal est excité pendant qu'un laser pompe les boîtes quantiques dans leur état excité. La relaxation des boîtes quantiques par émission stimulée de plasmon-polariton de surface apporte un gain optique. Ce phénomène est caractérisé par microscopie à fuites radiatives dans l'espace direct et dans l'espace réciproque. Cette démonstration représente un élément clé pour la photonique intégrée et l'interconnexion de circuits tout-optiques miniaturisés.

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Malone, Marvin Jr. "Plasmonic Sensing And Spectroscopy of Subwavelength Particles with an Infrared Microscope." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354561034.

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Laurell, Hugo, and Johan Hillborg. "Towards a tunable nanometer thick flat lens." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Materialfysik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341710.

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This report examines the cross sections of silver microresonators subjected to an incident light with different polarization. The microresonators had different geometries with and without broken symmetries. Cross section profiles for different microresonator configurations are interesting for the division of Material Physics, Uppsala University, when designing metamaterials to tune the optical response of the material. The goal is to form an insight of how the optical response can be tuned by choosing different geometries, varying the size and polarization of the incident light. In this project computer simulations in COMSOL were made to simulate the optical response of different microresonators. When the incident light interact with the silver microresonators plasmonic excitations is generated which in turn interacts with the light changing the phase and therefore the optical response. By increasing the radius of the disk silver microresonantors the resonance was found to shift to lower energies. For a geometry with a disk microresonator inside a ring microresonator the Fano resonances were dependent of the radius of the disk microresonator.

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Ropers, Claus. "Femtosecond excitations in metallic nanostructures." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15664.

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Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zum Verständnis optischer Anregungen in metallischen Nanostrukturen. Am Beispiel ausgewählter Strukturen werden experimentell die Dynamik dieser Anregungen mit Femtosekunden-Zeitauflösung und ihre elektromagnetischen Moden auf der Nanometer-Längenskala untersucht. Anhand winkel- und zeitaufgelöster Transmissionsexperimente an metallischen Dünnfilmgittern wird gezeigt, dass resonante Oberflächenplasmon-Polaritonen (OPPen) wesentlich die optischen Eigenschaften dieser Strukturen beeinflussen. Die Lebensdauer solcher Anregungen wird ermittelt und damit nachgewiesen, dass Kopplungen zwischen OPP-Resonanzen drastische Lebensdauer-Modifikationen zur Folge haben. In einem eigens konstruierten, spektral auflösenden optischen Nahfeldmikroskop werden die elektromagnetischen Feldverteilungen der OPPen direkt abgebildet. Derartige Experimente erlauben erstmals eine Zuordnung der räumlichen Moden zur zeitlichen Dynamik verschiedener OPP-Resonanzen. Diese Erkenntnisse ermöglichen zudem eine Interpretation des nahfeldmikroskopischen Bildkontrasts bezüglich der Beiträge verschiedener vektorieller Komponenten des optischen Nahfeldes. Die selektive Abbildung unterschiedlicher elektrischer und magnetischer Feldkomponenten in Abhängigkeit vom Sondentyp wird demonstriert. Darüberhinaus wird die OPP-Erzeugung in einem Gitter auf dem Schaft einer Nahfeldspitze ausgenutzt, um propagierende OPPen im Apex zu konzentrieren. Ein weiterer Teil der Arbeit nutzt elektrische Feldüberhöhungen an scharfen Metallspitzen für die lokalisierte Erzeugung nichtlinearer optischer Signale. Die Beobachtung intensiver Multiphoton-Elektronenemission nach Femtosekundenanregung stellt ein zentrales Ergebnis dar. Dieser Prozess wird umfangreich charakterisiert und findet seine erste Anwendung in einer neuartigen Rastersondentechnik, in der die örtlich variierende Elektronenemission der Bildgebung dient.
This thesis contributes to the understanding of optical excitations in metallic nanostructures. In experiments on selected model structures, the dynamics of these excitations and their electromagnetic spatial modes are investigated with femtosecond temporal and nanometer spatial resolution, respectively. Angle- and time-resolved transmission experiments on metallic thin film gratings demonstrate the dominant role resonant surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) play in the optical properties of such structures. The lifetimes of these excitations are determined, and it is shown that coherent couplings among SPP-resonances result in drastic lifetime modifications. The spatial SPP mode profiles are imaged using a custom-built near-field optical microscope. The experiments reveal a direct correlation between the spatial mode structure and the dynamics of different SPP resonances. These findings allow for an interpretation of the near-field optical image contrast in terms of the contributions of different vectorial components of the electromagnetic near-field. A selective imaging of different electric and magnetic field components is demonstrated for various types of near-field probes. Furthermore, the excitation of SPPs in periodic structures is employed in a novel type of near-field tip. The resonant excitation of SPPs in a nanofabricated grating on the shaft of a sharp metallic tip results in their concentration at the tip apex. The final part of the thesis highlights the importance of optical field enhancements for the local generation of nonlinear optical signals at the apex of sharp metallic tips. Specifically, the observation of intense multiphoton electron emission after femtosecond excitation is a major result. This process is thoroughly characterized, and a novel scanning microscopy application based on this effect is presented. In this technique, an image contrast with nanometer resolution arises from spatially varying electron emission rates.

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Aberra, Guebrou Samuel. "Influence des plasmons de surface propagatifs sur la cohérence de systèmes optiques." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00798779.

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Cette thèse expérimentale s'est attachée à l'étude des effets induits par l'extension spatiale desplasmons de surface sur l'émission de matériaux organiques et inorganiques. Le système estformé d'un ensemble d'émetteurs localisés émettant principalement des plasmons de surfacedélocalisés. Dans un premier temps, nous nous sommes intéressés à l'imagerie par microscopieplasmon, technique de plus en plus utilisée dans divers domaines, notamment la biologie. Nousavons montré que l'émission détectée en un point provient essentiellement de l'environnementet non du point observé, définissant ainsi un cercle d'influence lié à la longueur de propagationdu plasmon de surface. Quand le plasmon interagit plus fortement avec des émetteurs, ilpeut entrer en régime de couplage fort. Ce couplage fort se traduit par un changement dansles énergies du système et par l'apparition de nouveaux états hybrides excitons-plasmons, lespolaritons. Les différents émetteurs localisés (des chaines de colorants agrégés) ne sont alorsplus indépendants entre eux. Des mesures de diffusion montrent un effet collectif induit par lecouplage fort. Ces expériences ont été confirmées par des mesures de cohérence spatiale, réaliséesen ajoutant une expérience de fentes d'Young au dispositif de microscopie plasmon. Ilapparait qu'un état cohérent étendu sur plusieurs microns se forme, conformément aux prévisionsthéoriques. L'ensemble d'émetteurs se comporte alors comme une macromolécule, dontl'interaction est induite par le plasmon de surface.

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Cao, Shuiyan. "Using plasmonic nanostructures to control electrically excited light emission." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLS042/document.

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Dans cette thèse, nous utilisons différentes nanostructures plasmoniques pour contrôler l'émission de lumière excitée électriquement. Notre émission électrique provient d'une "nanosource STM" qui utilise le courant tunnel inélastique entre la pointe d'un microscope à effet tunnel (STM) et un échantillon métallique, pour exciter localement les plasmons polaritons de surface localisés et propagatifs. L’interaction de notre nanosource STM et d'une lentille plasmonique circulaire (une série de fentes concentriques gravées dans un film d'or épais) produit une microsource radialement polarisée de faible dispersion angulaire (≈ ± 4 °). L'influence des paramètres structuraux sur la propagation angulaire de la microsource résultante est également étudiée. En outre, une faible dispersion angulaire (<± 7 °) pour une grande plage de longueurs d'onde (650-850 nm) est obtenue. Ainsi, cette microsource électrique de lumière presque collimatée a une réponse spectrale large et est optimale sur une large plage d'énergie, en particulier en comparaison avec d'autres structures plasmoniques résonantes telles que les nanoantennes Yagi-Uda. L'interaction de notre nanosource STM et d'une lentille plasmonique elliptique (une seule fente elliptique gravée dans un film d'or épais) est également étudiée. Lorsque l'excitation STM est située au point focal de la lentille plasmonique elliptique, un faisceau lumineux directionnel à faible divergence est acquis. De plus, expérimentalement, nous trouvons qu'en changeant l'excentricité de la lentille plasmique elliptique, l'angle d'émission varie. On constate que plus l'excentricité de la lentille elliptique est grande, plus l'angle d'émission est élevé. Cette étude permet de mieux comprendre comment les nanostructures plasmoniques façonnent l'émission de lumière. L'interaction de SPP excités par STM et d'une structure de pile multicouche planaire plasmonique est également étudiée. Il est démontré qu'en utilisant l'excitation STM, nous pouvons sonder la structure de bande optique de la pile Au-SiO₂-Au. Nous trouvons que l'épaisseur du diélectrique joue un rôle important dans la modification du couplage entre les modes. Nous comparons également les résultats obtenus par excitation laser et STM de la même structure de pile. Les résultats indiquent que la technique STM est supérieure en sensibilité. Ces résultats mettent en évidence le potentiel de la STM en tant que technique de nanoscopie optique sensible pour sonder les bandes optiques des nanostructures plasmoniques. Enfin, l'interaction d'une nanosource STM et d'une plaque triangulaire individuelle est également étudiée. Nous trouvons que lorsque l'excitation STM est centrée sur la plaque triangulaire, il n'y a pas d'émission de lumière directionnelle. Cependant, lorsque la nanosource STM est située sur le bord du triangle, on obtient une émission de lumière directionnelle. Cette étude nous fournit une nouvelle voie pour atteindre l'émission de lumière directionnelle. Nous étudions également l'exploration du LDOS optique du triangle avec la nanosource STM. Ainsi, nos résultats montrent que la manipulation de la lumière est réalisée par des interactions SPP-matière. En utilisant des nanostructures plasmoniques, nous contrôlons la collimation, la polarisation et la direction de la lumière provenant de la nanosource STM
In this thesis, we use different plasmonic nanostructures to control the emission of electrically-excited light. Our electrical emission is from an “STM-nanosource” which uses the inelastic tunnel current between the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and a metallic sample, to locally excite both localized and propagating surface plasmon polaritons. The interaction of our STM-nanosource and a circular plasmonic lens (a series of concentric slits etched in a thick gold film) produces a radially polarized microsource of low angular spread (≈±4°). The influence of the structural parameters on the angular spread of the resulting microsource is also investigated. In addition, a low angular spread (<±7°) for a large wavelength range (650-850 nm) is achieved. Thus this electrically-driven microsource of nearly collimated light has a broad spectral response and is optimal over a wide energy range, especially in comparison with other resonant plasmonic structures such as Yagi-Uda nanoantennas. The interaction of our STM-nanosource and an elliptical plasmonic lens (a single elliptical slit etched in a thick gold film) is also studied. When the STM excitation is located at the focal point position of the elliptical plasmonic lens, a directional light beam of low angular spread is acquired. Moreover, in the experiment we find that by changing the eccentricity of the elliptical plasmonic lens, the emission angle is varied. It is found that the larger the eccentricity of the elliptical lens, the higher the emission angle. This study provides a better understanding of how plasmonic nanostructures shape the emission of light. The interaction of STM-excited SPPs and a planar plasmonic multi-layer stack structure is also investigated. It is demonstrated that using STM excitation we can probe the optical band structure of the Au-SiO₂-Au stack. We find that the thickness of the dielectric plays an important role in changing the coupling between the modes. We also compare the results obtained by both laser and STM excitation of the same stack structure. The results indicate that the STM technique is superior in sensitivity. These findings highlight the potential of the STM as a sensitive optical nanoscopic technique to probe the optical bands of plasmonic nanostructures. Finally, the interaction of an STM-nanosource and an individual triangular plate is also studied. We find that when the STM excitation is centered on the triangular plate, there is no directional light emission. However, when the STM-nanosource is located on the edge of the triangle, directional light emission is obtained. This study provides us a novel avenue to achieve directional light emission. We also study probing the optical LDOS of the triangle with the STM-nanosource. Thus, our results show that the manipulation of light is achieved through SPP-matter interactions. Using plasmonic nanostructures, we control the collimation, polarization, and direction of the light originating from the STM-nanosource

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Ye, Fan. "Surface plasmon polaritons along metal surfaces with novel structures." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103747.

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Thesis advisor: Michael J. Naughton
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are hybridized quasiparticles of photons and electron density waves. They are confined to propagate along metal-dielectric interfaces, and decay exponentially along the direction perpendicular to the interfaces. In the past two decades, SPPs have drawn intensive attention and undergone rapid development due to their potential for application in a vast range of fields, including but not limited to subwavelength imaging, biochemical/biomedical sensing, enhanced light trapping for solar cells, and plasmonic logic gates. These applications utilize the following intrinsic properties of SPPs: (1) the wavelength of SPPs is shorter (and can be much shorter) than that of free photons with the same frequency; (2) the local electric field intensity associated with SPPs can be orders of magnitude larger than that of free photons; and (3) SPPs are bound to metal surfaces, and are thus easily modulated by the geometry of those surfaces. Here, we present studies on SPPs along metal surfaces with novel structures, including the following: (1) SPP standing waves formed along circular metal surfaces that lead to a "plasmonic halo" effect; (2) directional reflectionless conversion between free photons and SPPs in asymmetric metal-insulator-metal arrays; and (3) broadband absorbance enhancement of embedded metallic nanopatterns in a photovoltaic absorber layer. These works may prove useful for new schemes for SPP generation, plasmon-photon modulation, ultrasensitive dielectric/bio sensing, and high efficiency thin film solar cells
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Physics

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Safari, Akbar. "Resonant Light-Matter Interaction for Enhanced Control of Exotic Propagation of Light." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39057.

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We investigate the propagation of light in different conditions that lead to exotic propagation of photons and use near-resonant light-matter interactions to enhance these effects. First, we study the propagation of light in a moving highly dispersive medium, namely rubidium atoms. Based on the special relativity the speed of light changes with the speed of the medium. However, this drag effect in a non-dispersive medium is very small and thus difficult to measure. We show that the drag effect is enhanced significantly when the moving medium is highly dispersive. Thus, with this enhancement even a slow motion can be detected. Next, we employ the large nonlinear response of rubidium atoms to accentuate the formation of optical caustics. Caustics are important as nature uses caustics to concentrate the energy of waves. Moreover, caustics can be formed in many physical systems such as water waves in oceans to amplify tsunamis or generate rogue waves. The connection of our study to these giant water waves is discussed. Finally, we explore light-matter interactions in plasmonic systems. We show that photons experience a significant phase jump as they couple into and out of a plasmonic structure. This coupling phase, also known as the scattering phase shift, is generic to all scattering events. We measure this coupling phase with a triple-slit plasmonic structure. Moreover, we use the near-field enhancement of the plasmonic structure to enhance the coupling between the slits. Consequently, the photons can take non-trivial trajectories that pass through all three slits. We measure such exotic trajectories for the first time that are seemingly in violation of the superposition principle. The application of the superposition principle and the validity of Born’s rule is discussed.

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Hanif, Raza. "Microfabrication of Plasmonic Biosensors in CYTOP Integrating a Thin SiO2 Diffusion and Etch-barrier Layer." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19880.

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A novel process for the fabrication of Long Range Surface Plasmon Polariton (LRSPP) waveguide based biosensors is presented herein. The structure of the biosensor is comprised of Au stripe waveguide devices embedded in thick CYTOP claddings with a SiO2 solvent diffusion barrier and etch-stop layer. The SiO2 layer is introduced to improve the end quality of Au waveguide structures, which previously deformed during the deposit of the upper cladding process and to limit the over-etching of CYTOP to create micro-fluidic channels. The E-beam evaporation method is adapted to deposit a thin SiO2 on the bottom cladding of CYTOP. A new micro-fluidic design pattern is introduced. Micro-fluidic channels were created on selective Au waveguides through O2 plasma etching. The presented data and figures are refractive index measurements of different materials, thickness measurements, microscope images, and AFM images. Optical power cutback measurements were performed on fully CYTOP-cladded symmetric LRSPP waveguides. The end-fire coupling method was used to excite LRSPP modes with cleaved polarization maintaining (PM) fibre. The measured mode power attenuation (MPA) was 6.7 dB/mm after using index-matched liquid at input and output fibre-waveguide interfaces. The results were compared with the theoretical calculations and simulations. Poor coupling efficiency and scattering due to the SiO2 are suspected for off-target measurements.

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Bahsoun, Hadi. "Electronic strong coupling of molecular materials in the liquid phase." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAF030/document.

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Cette thèse contribue à la compréhension fondamentale du phénomène de couplage fort de la lumière avec des molécules organiques en mettant en œuvre de nouveaux systèmes et de nouvelles techniques, afin d'étudier les modifications de propriétés de molécules couplées à des résonances photoniques. Nous présentons des techniques de nanofabrication avancées pour la création de grands réseaux de trous sur des métaux et de cavités de Fabry-Pérot (FP) nanofluidiques. Ces systèmes sont ensuite utilisés pour étudier, sous régime de couplage fort, les modifications des propriétés de surface et de volume de molécules organiques en phase solide et liquide. En particulier les transitions électroniques de molécules du colorant cyanine en solution liquide ont été couplées à des modes photoniques résonants de cavités FP nanofluidiques spécialement conçues. Leur couplage fort a conduit à une amélioration du rendement quantique d'émission, mettant en évidence la nature radiative des états polaritoniques
This thesis contributes to the fundamental understanding of the phenomenon of strong coupling of light with organic molecules by implementing new systems and techniques in order to investigate property modifications of molecules coupled with photonic resonances. State-of-the-art nanofabrication techniques for the formation of large hole-array gratings in metals and nanofluidic Fabry-Perot (FP) cavities are presented. These systems were then invested to study, under strong coupling, surface and bulk properties modifications of organic molecules in the solid and liquid phase. In particular, electronic transitions of cyanine dye molecules in liquid solutions were coupled to resonant photonic modes of specially designed nanofluidic FP cavities. Their strong coupling has led to an enhancement of the emission quantum yield, highlighting the radiative nature of the associated polaritonic states

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Diniz, Lorena Orsoni. "Modelagem de dispositivos ópticos em escala nanométrica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18155/tde-12112010-091634/.

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Dispositivos fotônicos têm estado continuamente no foco das pesquisas científicas, particularmente em aplicações para comunicações ópticas e sensoriamento. Por outro lado, as dimensões desses dispositivos são restringidas pelo limite de difração de Abbe. Esse limite tem se mostrado como o grande gargalo no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias em microscopia óptica, litografia de projeção óptica, óptica integrada, e armazenamento óptico de dados, por limitar as dimensões e a capacidade de integração destes dispositivos. Felizmente, a \"plasmônica\" surgiu como um novo campo de estudo, possibilitando a superação dessa limitação por meio da propagação da luz em modos de plasmon-poláritons de superfície - SPP (Surface Plasmon Polariton). De maneira simplificada, SPPs são campos eletromagnéticos confinados em regiões menores que o comprimento de onda da luz. A geração de SPP ocorre por meio da excitação coletiva de elétrons na interface entre dois meios, metal-dielétrico, que se acoplam com a onda eletromagnética incidente. Pesquisadores logo perceberam que guias de onda baseados em SPP poderiam transportar a mesma banda de informação que um dispositivo fotônico convencional e serem tão localizados quanto dispositivos eletrônicos (elétrons têm maior capacidade de confinamento que fótons). Dessa maneira, alterando a estrutura da superfície de um metal, as propriedades dos SPPs - em particular sua interação com a luz - podem ser manipuladas, oferecendo potencial para o desenvolvimento de novos tipos de dispositivos fotônicos. Com isso, nanoestruturas capazes de guiar, dividir ou mesmo sintonizar a luz tornaram-se realidade. No presente trabalho, o fenômeno de geração de SPPs é estudado teoricamente e aplicado na modelagem de diversas estruturas de interesse científico e tecnológico, tais como filtros de cavidade ressonante e ressoadores em anel. O objetivo principal é a obtenção de estruturas capazes de filtrar ou sintonizar comprimentos de onda, minimizando as perdas ao máximo. Com isso, espera-se estender e explorar ainda mais o leque de possíveis aplicações.
Photonic devices have continuously been in the focus of scientific research, particularly for optical communications and sensing applications. On the other hand, the dimensions of these devices are well known to be limited by the Abbe\'s diffraction limit. This limit has been the major bottleneck in developing new technologies in optical microscopy, lithography projection optics, integrated optics, and optical data storage, as it limits the size and ability to integrate these devices. Fortunately, the field of \"Plasmonics\" has emerged and devices whose dimensions overcome the difraction limit have now become reality. This is possible with the propagation of light in the form of Surface Plasmon Polariton - SPP that, in a simplified way, is an electromagnetic field confined in regions smaller than the wavelength of light. SPP occurs via collective excitation of electrons at the interface between two media, metal-dielectric, as a result of the coupling with an incident electromagnetic wave. Researchers soon realized that waveguides based on SPP could carry the same band of information as that of a conventional photonic device and yet be as localized as electronic devices (electrons have a greater capacity for confinement than photons). Thus, changing the structure of the surface of a metal, the properties of SPPs - in particular its interaction with light - can be manipulated, offering potential for the development of new types of photonic devices. Thus, nanostructures capable of transferring, guiding, splitting, or even tuning the light have now become reality. In this work, the phenomenon of generation of SPPs is theoretically investigated and applied to various structures of scientific and technological interest, such as filters and cavity resonators. The main objective is to obtain structures that are able to filter or tune wavelengths, minimizing losses as much as possible. As a result, we expect to extend and explore even further the range of possible applications.

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Yang, Min Shih. "Modelagem de nano-estruturas para aplicações na geração de Plásmon-Poláritons de Superfície (SPP)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18155/tde-14102009-091902/.

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O incessante aumento do volume de informações produzido por uma sociedade cada vez mais informatizada tem elevado drasticamente os requisitos quanto ao desenvolvimento de dispositivos capazes de suportar velocidades de operação cada vez mais elevadas em tamanhos cada vez mais reduzidos. No entanto, a contínua redução do tamanho desses dispositivos, celebrado através da lei de Moore, também produz um indesejável aumento na produção de calor durante a operação dos mesmos, comprometendo seu desempenho global. Uma alternativa promissora para aliviar, ou mesmo superar, estas limitações é oferecida pelos dispositivos ópticos integrados. No entanto, todo esse avanço esbarrava no fato de que as dimensões de tais dispositivos estavam restringidas fundamentalmente ao que é largamente conhecido como limite de difração (LD). Uma maneira de contornar essa limitação é obtida através da utilização de Plásmon Poláritons de Superfície, ou SPPs, que, de maneira simplificada, são ondas que se propagam ao longo da superfície de um condutor depositado sobre um dielétrico. Estas são essencialmente ondas de luz que são localizadas na superfície por causa de sua interação com os elétrons livres do condutor. Nesta interação, os elétrons livres respondem coletivamente oscilando em ressonância com a onda de luz. No presente trabalho, o fenômeno de geração de SPPs é estudado teoricamente e aplicado na modelagem de diversas estruturas de interesse científico e tecnológico, tais como acopladores direcionais e ressoadores. O objetivo principal é a obtenção de estruturas capazes de proporcionar propagação de SPPs por longas distâncias, permitindo, assim, estender ainda mais o leque de possíveis aplicações. As estruturas são investigadas prioritariamente no COMSOL Multiphysics, um aplicativo baseado em elementos finitos que permite solução vetorial de problemas eletromagnéticos. Os resultados obtidos até o momento permitem afirmar que o conceito de SPP de longa distância (long range SPP, LRSPP) podem ser aplicados com sucesso a estruturas geometricamente complexas como os ressoadores em anel e acopladores direcionais.
The continuous growth of knowledge produced by a society with increasing access to information technologies has demanded the development of communication devices capable of supporting high processing speeds at more and more reduced sizes. Nevertheless, the continuous reduction of the size of these devices, celebrated by the Moore\'s law, has also produced an undesirable increase of heat produced during the operation of the device itself, compromising its overall performance. A promising alternative to alleviate, or even overcome, these limitations has been offered by photonic integrated circuits. However, all the advance of photonic devices was restricted to what is known as diffraction limit. A fascinating way of circumventing this limit is now available to the scientific community, and consists in the generation of Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) waves. In a simplified manner, SPP waves are waves that propagate along a metal/dielectric interface. These waves are essentially localized at the metal/dielectric interface because of the interaction of light with free electrons of the metal. In this interaction, the free electrons respond collectively and oscillate resonantly with the incident light. In the present work, the phenomenon of SPP generation is theoretically investigated and applied to the modeling of several structures, such as directional couplers and resonators. The primary goal of this work is to design structures capable propagating SPP waves for long distances, known as long range SPP (LRSPP). The structures are investigated mostly with COMSOL Multiphysics, a finite elements based software that allows for the vectorial solution of electromagnetic problems. The results obtained so far are extremely encouraging, and prove that the LRSPP concept can be successfully applied to geometrically complex structures, such as couplers and ring resonators.

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De, Leon Arizpe Israel. "Amplification of Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polaritons." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19790.

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Surface plasmon-polaritons are optical surface waves formed through the interaction of photons with free electrons at the surface of metals. They offer interesting applications in a broad range of scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. However, many of such applications face limitations imposed by the high propagation losses of these waves at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, which result mainly from power dissipation in the metal. In principle, the propagation losses of surface plasmon-polaritons can be compensated through optical amplification. The objective of this thesis is to provide deeper insights on the physics of surface plasmon-polariton amplification and spontaneous emission in surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers through theoretical and experimental vehicles applied (but not necessarily restricted) to a particular plasmonic mode termed long-range surface plasmon-polariton. On the theoretical side, the objective is approached by developing a realistic theoretical model to describe the small-signal amplification of surface plasmon-polaritons in planar structures incorporating dipolar gain media such as organic dye molecules, rare-earth ions, and quantum dots. This model takes into account the inhomogeneous gain distribution formed near the metal surface due to a non-uniform excitation of dipoles and due to a position-dependent excited-state dipole lifetime that results from near-field interactions between the excited dipoles and the metal. Also, a theoretical model to describe the amplified spontaneous emission of surface plasmon-polaritons supported by planar metallic structures is developed. This model takes into account the different energy decay channels into which an exited dipole located in the vicinity of the metal can relax. The validity of this model is confirmed through experimentation. On the experimental side, the objective is approached by providing a direct experimental demonstration of complete loss compensation in a plasmonic waveguide. The experiments are conducted using the long-range surface plasmon-polariton supported by a symmetric thin gold waveguide incorporating optically pumped organic dye molecules in solution as the gain medium. Also, an experimental study of spontaneous emission in a long-range surface plasmon-polariton amplifier is presented. It is shown that this amplifier benefits from a low spontaneous emission into the amplified mode, which leads to an optical amplifier with low noise characteristics. The experimental setup and techniques are explained in detail.

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Schumann, Robert Paul. "Surface plasmon random scattering and related phenomena." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10297.

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Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes "Monte Carlo SPP Scattering Simulation Program" (leaves 107-123) Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-129) Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Marini, Andrea. "Theory of nonlinear and amplified surface plasmon polaritons." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547873.

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This thesis presents a study of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) in hybrid metal-dielectric waveguides. The embedding of metal in nanostructured photonic components allows for manipulating and guiding light at the subwavelength scale. Such an extreme confinement enhances the nonlinear response of the dielectric medium, which is important for applications in optical processing of information, but is paid in terms of considerable ohmic loss in the metal. It is, however, possible to embed externally pumped active inclusions in the dielectric in order to compensate for the metal loss. A novel perturbative theory for Maxwell equations is introduced and applied to various nonlinear metal-dielectric structures, deriving the propagation equation for the optical field. The nonlinear dispersion law for amplified SPPs, filamentation and dissipative plasmon-soliton formation have been studied, revealing intrinsic core and tail instabilities that prevent solitons to propagate over long distances. Stable propagation of plasmon-solitons can be achieved in insulator-metal-insulator structures with active and passive interfaces. The active SPP is coupled with the passive SPP, which absorbs the perturbations destabilising the zero background of the soliton. Theoretical modelling of optical propagation in metal-dielectric stacks predicts a modified two-band structure, allowing for gap/discrete plasmon-soliton formation. Loss and nonlinear parameters in subwavelength nanowire waveguides are evaluated and compared to the results obtained by other research groups. In all calculations, particular attention is paid in considering boundary conditions accounting for loss and nonlinear corrections, which contribute to the propagation equation with a surface term that becomes significant in the subwavelength regime.

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Guo, Yan, and Yan Guo. "Nonlinear Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Analytical and Numerical Studies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12324.

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This dissertation contains analytical and numerical studies of nonlinear surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs). In our studies, we consider SPP propagation at the interface between a noble metal with a cubic optical nonlinearity and an optically linear dielectric. We first consider a sum-frequency generation process during the nonlinear interaction, where a nonlinear polarization with tripled frequency is generated from the incident fundamental SPP. Using the non-depletion approximation, the solution of the nonlinear wave equation shows a third harmonic generation process from the incident SPP wave. The solution is bound in the dielectric while freely propagating in the metal. For realistic noble metals with absorption, we use silver for its transparency window around the plasma frequency. In this window, absorption losses are reduced and the resultant signal has a good transmittance within the metal. The energy conversion efficiency from the incident SPP wave to the THG signal is about 0.1% for excitation using a standard continuous wave laser with visible light intensity I = 103W/cm2. Once generated, the propagation angle of the signal is fully determined by the optical properties of the dielectric and the metal layers. We next consider a nonlinear polarization with the same frequency as the incident light. In this process the third order nonlinearity of the metal is described by a nonlinear optical refractive-index. With the slowly varying amplitude approximation, the nonlinear wave equation takes the form of a nonlinear temporal Schr¨odinger (NLS) equation. The solution to the NLS equation for the nonlinear SPP is a temporal dark soliton (TDS). In addition to analytical studies, computational methods are also used. With no metal loss, the numerical solution shows stable propagation of a TDS, when the initial pulse has a tanh envelope satisfying the threshold peak amplitude. For an arbitrary input pulse, instabilities such as background-oscillations and multi-peak breakups occur. With metal loss, the input optical pulse decays while maintaining a single pulse shape when the initial amplitude satisfies the same tanh envelope condition as in the lossless case. For an arbitrary pulse, background-oscillations or pulse-breakups occur after a short time of propagation.

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Lupi, Antonio. "Electrical detection of surface plasmon polaritons via the plasmon drag effect." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24769.

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This thesis concerns the measurement and characterization of the Surface Plasmon Drag Effect (SPDE) in metallic structures and its application to the electrical detection of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). We demonstrate that SPPs absorbed in a metallic structure generate an electric current, which polarity depends on the propagation direction of the absorbed SPP, without the need of any applied voltage. We investigate the effect in gold and silver thin films of different thickness and on various metallic bilayers, which are deposited on right angle prisms and hemispheres to allow coupling of light to SPP through the Kretschmann-Raether configuration. We then simultaneously measure the angular spectrum of the reflected light and the electric current generated by the effect. The accuracy of the experiment allow us to determine the effect efficiency and thus to quantitatively compare different samples. In an attempt to clarify the mechanism giving rise to the current generation, we compare our experiments with existing models of the Photon Drag Effect (PDE). This is a similar phenomenon mediated by photon absorption where the current is the result of momentum transfer from the photon to conduction electrons. We find that the model qualitatively predicts our results and thus SPDE can be interpreted as the result of quasimomentum transfer from SPPs to the electrons, but care must be taken for considering the prediction of the model quantitatively. In addiction, we discovered that the effect shows local efficiency enhancement and even change of the current polarity in the presence of films with defects. Those results suggest a different interpretation to previous literature results and overall deepen the understanding of the phenomenon. A clear comprehension of the mechanisms leading to current generation is crucial for designing future applications in sensing and photonic circuitry. Despite the low efficiency in the visible range, in fact, this effect can be attractive since it promises to have an ultrafast response, to retain its sensitivity at longer wavelengths and has the peculiar ability of sensing the propagation direction of the SPP.

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Metelka, Ondřej. "Charakterizace struktur připravených selektivním mokrým leptáním křemíku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-231496.

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The task of master’s thesis was to perform optimalization process for preparing metal etching mask by electron beam litography and subsequent selective wet ething of silicon with crystalographic orientation (100). Further characterization of etched surface and fabricated structures was performed. In particular, attention was given to the morphology demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy and study changes of the optical properties of gold plasmonic antennas due to their undercut.

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Bleckmann, Felix [Verfasser]. "Controlling surface plasmon polaritons with dielectric nanostructures / Felix Bleckmann." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1124540326/34.

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Constant, Thomas J. "Optical excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on novel bigratings." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9001.

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This thesis details original experimental investigations in to the interaction of light with the mobile electrons at the surface of metallic diffraction gratings. The gratings used in this work to support the resultant trapped surface waves (surface plasmon polaritons), may be divided into two classes: ‘crossed’ bigratings and ‘zigzag’ gratings. Crossed bigratings are composed of two diffraction gratings formed of periodic grooves in a metal surface, which are crossed at an angle relative to one another. While crossed bigratings have been studied previously, this work focuses on symmetries which have received comparatively little attention in the literature. The gratings explored in this work possesses two different underlying Bravais lattices: rectangular and oblique. Control over the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) dispersion on a rectangular bigrating is demonstrated by the deepening of one of the two constituent gratings. The resulting change in the diffraction efficiency of the surface waves leads to large SPP band-gaps in one direction across the grating, leaving the SPP propagation in the orthogonal direction largely unperturbed. This provides a mechanism to design surfaces that support highly anisotropic propagation of SPPs. SPPs on the oblique grating are found to mediate polarisation conversion of the incident light field. Additionally, the SPP band-gaps that form on such a surface are shown to not necessarily occur at the Brillouin Zone boundaries of this lattice, as the BZ boundary for an oblique lattice is not a continuous contour of high-symmetry points. The second class of diffraction grating investigated in this thesis is the new zigzag grating geometry. This grating is formed of sub-wavelength (non-diffracting) grooves that are ‘zigzagged’ along their length to provide a diffractive periodicity for visible frequency radiation. The excitation and propagation of SPPs on such gratings is investigated and found to be highly polarisation selective. The first type of zigzag grating investigated possesses a single mirror plane. SPP excitation to found to be dependant on which diffracted order of SPP is under polarised illumination. The formation of SPP band-gaps is also investigated, finding that the band-gap at the first Brillouin Zone boundary is forbidden by the grating’s symmetry. The final grating considered is a zigzag grating which possesses no mirror symmetry. Using this grating, it is demonstrated that any polarisation of incident light may resonantly drive the same SPP modes. SPP propagation on this grating is found to be forbidden in all directions for a range of frequencies, forming a full SPP band-gap.

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Rea, Christopher J. T. "Modelling surface plasmon polaritons on smooth and periodic multilayers." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361270.

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Moghaddam, Abolghasem Mobaraki. "Advanced methods of observing surface plasmon polaritons and magnons." Thesis, University of Salford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292905.

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Passinger, Sven. "Two-photon polymerization and application to surface plasmon polaritons." Göttingen Cuvillier, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990426521/04.

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Shahzad, Monas. "Infraded Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Semiconductor, Semimetal and Conducting Polymer." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5491.

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Conductors with IR (infrared) plasma frequencies are potentially useful hosts of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with subwavelength mode confinement for sensing applications. The underlying aim of this work is to identify such conductors that also have sharp SPP excitation resonances for biosensor applications at infrared (3-11 [micro]m) wavelengths, where biological analytes are strongly differentiated by their IR absorption spectra. In this work, various materials were investigated such as a heavily doped semiconductor, a semimetal, a conducting polymer and its composite. Heavily doped silicon was investigated by tuning its plasma frequency to the infrared region by heavily doping. The measured complex permittivity spectra for p-type silicon with a carrier concentration of 6 x 1019 and 6 x 1020 cm-3 show that these materials support SPPs beyond 11 and 6 [micro]m wavelengths, respectively. SPP generation was observed in angular reflection spectra of doped-silicon gratings. Photon-to-plasmon coupling resonances, a necessary condition for sensing, were demonstrated near 10 [micro]m wavelength for the heaviest doped, and the observed resonances were confirmed theoretically using analytic calculations. The permittivity spectra were also used to calculate SPP mode heights above the silicon surface and SPP propagation lengths. Reasonable merit criteria applied to these quantities suggest that only the heaviest doped material has sensor potential, and then mainly within the wavelength range of 6 to 10 [micro]m. The semimetal bismuth (Bi) has an infrared plasmon frequency less than the infrared plasma frequency of noble metals such as gold and silver, which is one order of magnitude lower than their plasma frequencies. The excitation of IR surface plasmons on Bi lamellar gratings in the wavelength range of 3.4 [micro]m to 10.6 [micro]m was observed. Distinct SPP resonances were observed although the usual condition for bound SPP is not satisfied in this wavelength range because the real part of the permittivity is positive. The excitation of these resonances agrees theoretically with the electromagnetic surface waves called surface polaritons (SPs). The measured permittivity spectra were used to calculate the SP mode heights above the bismuth surface and SP propagation length, which satisfied our criteria for sensors. A conducting polymer and its composite with graphite were also investigated since their plasma frequency may lie in the infrared region. Polyaniline was chemically synthesized and doped with various acids to prepare its salt form. A composite material of polyaniline with colloidal and nano-graphite was also prepared. Optical constants were measured in the long wave infrared region (LWIR) and were used to calculate SPP propagation length and penetration depth. SPP resonance spectra were calculated and suggested that polyaniline and its composite can be used as a host with sufficient mode confinement for IR sensor application.
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Connolly, M. P. "Surface plasmon polaritons in thin film structures : calculations & experiment." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333810.

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Tillin, Martin David. "Dielectric response of metals using optically excited surface plasmon-polaritons." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236520.

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