Propagation length of surface plasmons in a metal film with roughness.

abstract

• The propagation of laser-excited surface plasmons along a gold film with surface roughness is directly observed via scattered light. The attenuation length of surface plasmons in a broad wavelength interval is calculated for smooth gold and silver films. The surface roughness, which was characterized with an AFM, introduces corrections to the attenuation length, angular dependence of the surface plasmon resonance, and the effective dielectric constant of the metal film. These corrections are also taken into account and discussed.

authors

• Schuessler, Hans

published proceedings

• Appl Opt

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Kolomenski, A., Kolomenskii, A., Noel, J., Peng, S., & Schuessler, H.

citation count

• 91

publication date

• October 2009

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4018 Nanotechnology
• 51 Physical Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/AO.48.005683

start page

• 5683

end page

• 5691

volume

• 48

issue

• 30

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.48.005683