Surface plasmon resonance on a recordable compact disk

Author

Fontana, Eduardo

Author_Institution

Dept. de Eletronica e Sistemas, Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

667

Abstract

The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect on noble metal surfaces has been explored by several investigators for the development of chemical and biological sensors as well as for the design of optical devices for other applications. The effect can be observed using prism couplers, diffraction gratings and specially configured optical fibers. In an attempt to seek for a new configuration that minimizes fabrication costs of the SPR supporting media in conjunction with the design of a new format suitable for large scale chemical and biological sensing, we have investigated the feasibility of a commercially available, gold-type, recordable compact disk (CD-R) for observation of the SPR phenomenon. In this paper we report experimental and theoretical results of this investigation.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; gold; optical disc storage; optical multilayers; optical sensors; reflectivity; surface plasmon resonance; Au; angular dependence; biological sensing; chemical sensing; diffraction grating; diffraction order intensities; fabrication costs; large scale sensing; multilayer structure; recordable compact disk; specular reflectance; supporting media; surface plasmon resonance effect; CD recording; Chemical and biological sensors; Diffraction gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical diffraction; Optical fiber couplers; Plasmons; Resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1242658

Filename

1242658