Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons

ISBN: 9780444528384 出版年：2006 页码：341 Elsevier Science_RM

Current developments in optical technologies are being directed toward nanoscale devices with subwavelength dimensions, in which photons are manipulated on the nanoscale. Although light is clearly the fastest means to send information to and from the nanoscale, there is a fundamental incompatibility between light at the microscale and devices and processes at the nanoscale. Nanostructured metals which support surface plasmon modes can concentrate electromagnetic (EM) fields to a small fraction of a wavelength while enhancing local field strengths by several orders of magnitude. For this reason, plasmonic nanostructures can serve as optical couplers across the nano icro interface: metal ielectric and metal emiconductor nanostructures can act as optical nanoantennae and enhance light matter coupling in nanoscale devices. This book describes how one can fully integrate plasmonic nanostructures into dielectric, semiconductor, and molecular photonic devices, for guiding photons across the nano icro interface and for detecting molecules with unsurpassed sensitivity.路Nanophotonics and Nanoplasmonics路Metamaterials and negative-index materials路Plasmon-enhanced sensing and spectroscopy路Imaging and sensing on the nanoscale路Metal Optics