Extremely short-length surface plasmon resonance sensors
Maxim L. Nesterov, Alexandre V. Kats, Sergei K. Turitsyn
TL;DR
This paper analyzes how to optimize the design of ultra-compact surface plasmon resonance sensors by enhancing mode coupling efficiency through multi-layer structuring without gratings, enabling smaller device sizes.
Contribution
It introduces a design approach for reducing sensor size by improving coupling efficiency via multi-layer structures, avoiding additional gratings.
Findings
Enhanced coupling efficiency with optimized multilayer design
Significant reduction in device length achievable
Surface plasmon resonance sensing based on SPP-photon transformation
Abstract
The impact of the system design on the control of coupling between planar waveguide modes and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) is analyzed. We examine how the efficiency of the coupling can be enhanced by an appropriate dimensioning of a multi-layer device structure without using additional gratings. We demonstrate that by proper design the length of the device can be dramatically reduced through fabrication a surface plasmon resonance sensor based on the SPP-photon transformation rather then on SPP dissipation.
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