Title :
Optical Components for Surface Plasmon Polaritons Fabricated by Two Photon Polymerization
Author :
Passinger, Sven ; Kiyan, Roman ; Stepanov, Andrey ; Reinhardt, Carsten ; Chichkov, Boris
Author_Institution :
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover
Abstract :
This paper studies the applications of advanced femtosecond laser technologies for the fabrication of SPP structures. We demonstrate that resulting structures can be used for excitation, guiding, and manipulation of SPPs on a sub wavelength scale. Characterization of these structures is performed by detection of the plasmon leakage radiation. Two-photon polymerization allows the fabrication of dielectric waveguides, splitters, and couplers directly on metal surfaces.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical beam splitters; optical couplers; optical waveguides; polaritons; polymerisation; surface plasmons; two-photon processes; couplers; dielectric waveguides; femtosecond laser; optical components; plasmon leakage radiation; splitters; surface plasmon polaritons; two photon polymerization; Laser excitation; Leak detection; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical polymers; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Radiation detectors; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386626
