• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 7, Issue 1, 0174 (2009)
Xiaogang Hong, Wendong Xu, Xiaogang Li, Chengqiang Zhao, and Xiaodong Tang
Author Affiliations
  • 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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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20090701.0074 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiaogang Hong, Wendong Xu, Xiaogang Li, Chengqiang Zhao, Xiaodong Tang. Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2009, 7(1): 0174 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    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.
    Xiaogang Hong, Wendong Xu, Xiaogang Li, Chengqiang Zhao, Xiaodong Tang. Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2009, 7(1): 0174
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