Propagating plasmons on silver nanowires

Weidong He; Hong Wei; Zhipeng Li; Yingzhou Huang; Yurui Fang; Ping Li; Hongxing Xu

doi:10.1117/12.865585

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10 September 2010 Propagating plasmons on silver nanowires

Weidong He, Hong Wei, Zhipeng Li, Yingzhou Huang, Yurui Fang, Ping Li, Hongxing Xu

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Proceedings Volume 7757, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VIII; 775718 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865585
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Chemically synthesized Ag nanowires (NWs) can serve as waveguides to support propagating surface plasmons (SPs). By using the propagating SPs on Ag NWs, the surface-enhanced Raman scattering of molecules, located in the nanowire-nanoparticle junction a few microns away from the laser spot on one end of the NW, was excited. The propagating SPs can excite the excitons in quantum dots, and in reverse, the decay of excitons can generate SPs. The direction and polarization of the light emitted through the Ag NW waveguide. The emission polarization depends strongly on the shape of the NW terminals. In branched NW structures, the SPs can be switched between the main NW and the branch NW, by tuning the incident polarization. The light of different wavelength can also be controlled to propagate along different ways. Thus, the branched NW structure can serve as controllable plasmonic router and multiplexer.

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Weidong He, Hong Wei, Zhipeng Li, Yingzhou Huang, Yurui Fang, Ping Li, and Hongxing Xu "Propagating plasmons on silver nanowires", Proc. SPIE 7757, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VIII, 775718 (10 September 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865585

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