Surface plasmon micro- and nano-optics
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Utilization of Plasmonic and Photonic Crystal Nanostructures for Enhanced Micro- and Nanoparticle Manipulation
Published on: September 27, 2011
J R Krenn1, H Ditlbacher, G Schider
1Institute for Experimental Physics, Karl-Franzens-University and Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Nanoscale Research, Universitätsplatz 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria. krenn@kfunigraz.ac.at
Abstract:
We report the experimental realization of key elements of a two-dimensional optics based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Local SPP sources, Bragg mirrors and beamsplitters were lithographically built from silver nanostructures. The SPP fields were imaged by detecting the fluorescence of molecules that act as local probes of the SPP near-field intensity.
