Optical excitation conditions for surface plasmons at an aluminum-liquid interface

Authors
Ma, SM Han, BM Jo, JH Chang, S
Citation
Sm. Ma et al., Optical excitation conditions for surface plasmons at an aluminum-liquid interface, J KOR PHYS, 37(5), 2000, pp. 788-792
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
ISSN journal
03744884 → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Part
2
Pages
788 - 792
Database
ISI
SICI code
0374-4884(200011)37:5<788:OECFSP>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We investigate theoretically and experimentally the conditions for light-in duced excitation of surface plasmons at an aluminum-liquid interface in the Kretschmann configuration. The widths of the plasmon resonance curves are shown to be so broad that this aluminum layer system can be easily used to tune the surface-plasmon resonance for Various applications of surface-plas mon-enhanced evanescent fields. The experimental results are found to be in good agreement with the theoretical estimates.