Title :
Sensitive waveguide-coupled surface plasmon resonance imaging
Author :
Wang, Zhiyou ; Zheng, Zheng ; Zhu, Jinsong ; Song, Lusheng ; Bian, Yusheng
Author_Institution :
Nat. Center for Nanosci. & Technol., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We propose sensitive imaging measurements enabled by waveguide-coupled surface plasmon resonance sensors. In the measurement, almost all the sensors with different waveguide thicknesses show around 60% sensitivity improvement compared with traditional surface plasmon resonance sensor.
Keywords :
image processing; optical couplers; optical fabrication; optical sensors; optical waveguides; surface plasmon resonance; efficiency 60 percent; optical fabrication; sensitive imaging measurements; waveguide thicknesses; waveguide-coupled surface plasmon resonance sensors; Gold; Imaging; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Sensitivity; Sensors; Surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358723
