Integrated liquid-core ARROW waveguides for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Author

Measor, Philip ; Yin, Dongliang ; Schmidt, Holger ; Seballos, Leo ; Zhang, Jin ; Barber, John P. ; Hawkins, Aaron R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of CA Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Planar integrated liquid-core ARROW waveguides for surface-enhanced Raman (SERS) sensing are discussed. We demonstrate SERS detection from rhodamine 6G molecules bound to silver nanoparticles in ARROW waveguides and present waveguide designs for integrated Rayleigh-peak filtering.

Keywords

dyes; nanoparticles; optical design techniques; optical planar waveguides; optical sensors; silver; surface enhanced Raman scattering; Ag; SERS sensing; integrated Rayleigh-peak filtering; integrated liquid-core ARROW waveguides; planar integrated waveguides; rhodamine 6G molecules; silver nanoparticles; surface-enhanced Raman scattering; waveguide design; Geometrical optics; Liquid waveguides; Nanoparticles; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Raman scattering; Silver; Spectroscopy; Surface waves; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (300.6450) Spectroscopy, Raman;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628550

Filename

4628550