When are surface plasmon polaritons excited in the Kretschmann-Raether configuration?
Abstract
It is widely believed that the reflection minimum in a Kretschmann-Raether experiment results from direct coupling into surface plasmon polariton modes. Our experimental results provide a surprising discrepancy between the leakage radiation patterns of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) launched on a layered gold/germanium film compared to the K-R minimum, clearly challenging this belief. We provide definitive evidence that the reflectance dip in K-R experiments does not correlate with excitation of an SPP mode, but rather corresponds to a particular type of perfectly absorbing (PA) mode. Results from rigorous electrodynamics simulations show that the PA mode can only exist under external driving, whereas the SPP can exist in regions free from direct interaction with the driving field. These simulations show that it is possible to indirectly excite propagating SPPs guided by the reflectance minimum in a K-R experiment, but demonstrate the efficiency can be lower by more than a factor of 3. We find that optimal coupling into the SPP can be guided by the square magnitude of the Fresnel transmission amplitude.
- Authors:
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1200853
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 05; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Foley, IV, Jonathan J., Harutyunyan, Hayk, Rosenmann, Daniel, Divan, Ralu, Wiederrecht, Gary P., and Gray, Stephen K. When are surface plasmon polaritons excited in the Kretschmann-Raether configuration?. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep09929.
Foley, IV, Jonathan J., Harutyunyan, Hayk, Rosenmann, Daniel, Divan, Ralu, Wiederrecht, Gary P., & Gray, Stephen K. When are surface plasmon polaritons excited in the Kretschmann-Raether configuration?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09929
Foley, IV, Jonathan J., Harutyunyan, Hayk, Rosenmann, Daniel, Divan, Ralu, Wiederrecht, Gary P., and Gray, Stephen K. 2015.
"When are surface plasmon polaritons excited in the Kretschmann-Raether configuration?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09929. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1200853.
@article{osti_1200853,
title = {When are surface plasmon polaritons excited in the Kretschmann-Raether configuration?},
author = {Foley, IV, Jonathan J. and Harutyunyan, Hayk and Rosenmann, Daniel and Divan, Ralu and Wiederrecht, Gary P. and Gray, Stephen K.},
abstractNote = {It is widely believed that the reflection minimum in a Kretschmann-Raether experiment results from direct coupling into surface plasmon polariton modes. Our experimental results provide a surprising discrepancy between the leakage radiation patterns of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) launched on a layered gold/germanium film compared to the K-R minimum, clearly challenging this belief. We provide definitive evidence that the reflectance dip in K-R experiments does not correlate with excitation of an SPP mode, but rather corresponds to a particular type of perfectly absorbing (PA) mode. Results from rigorous electrodynamics simulations show that the PA mode can only exist under external driving, whereas the SPP can exist in regions free from direct interaction with the driving field. These simulations show that it is possible to indirectly excite propagating SPPs guided by the reflectance minimum in a K-R experiment, but demonstrate the efficiency can be lower by more than a factor of 3. We find that optimal coupling into the SPP can be guided by the square magnitude of the Fresnel transmission amplitude.},
doi = {10.1038/srep09929},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1200853},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
issn = {2045-2322},
number = 05,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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