Nanophotonics with surface plasmons

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shalaev, Vladimir M.
Other Authors: Kawata, Satoshi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed
Series:Advances in nano-optics and nano-photonics
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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 nanomicro interface: metaldielectric and metalsemiconductor 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 nanomicro interface and for detecting molecules with unsurpassed sensitivity. Nanophotonics and Nanoplasmonics Metamaterials and negative-index materials Plasmon-enhanced sensing and spectroscopy Imaging and sensing on the nanoscale Metal Optics
Physical Description:online resource (xiv, 325 p.) ill. (some col.)
ISBN:9780444528384
0444528385
0080467997
9780080467993