Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 0174(2009)

Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field

Xiaogang Hong, Wendong Xu, Xiaogang Li, Chengqiang Zhao, and Xiaodong Tang
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  • Optical Storage Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 2018002 School of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241
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    Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field, induced by using a multi-layers structure for exciting surface plasmon resonance (SPR), is analyzed numerically by utilizing two-dimensional (2D) TM-wave finite difference time-domain (FDTD) method. In this letter, we used a fundamental mode Gaussian beam to induce evanescent field, and calculated the electric intensity. The results show that compared with the nonmetal probe, the metal probe has a larger field enhancement effect, and its scattering wave induced by field enhancement has a bigger decay coefficient. The field enhancement effect should conclude that the metal probe has an important application in nanolithography.

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    Received: May. 5, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 4, 2009

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20090701.0074

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