亚波长直径光纤的光学传输特性及其应用

通过高温下的物理拉伸方法,可以直接将玻璃材料拉细成亚波长或纳米直径的光纤。所获得的光纤具有很好的直径均匀度和表面光滑度,可用于低损耗光传输,并可在可见和近红外光学传输中表现出强光场约束、倏逝波传输和大波导色散等特性,在光通信、传感和非线性光学等领域具有良好的应用前景。     

亚波长直径光纤的光学传输特性及其应用

通过高温下的物理拉伸方法，可以直接将玻璃材料拉细成亚波长或纳米直径的光纤。所获得的光纤具有很好的直径均匀度和表面光滑度，可用于低损耗光传输，并可在可见和近红外光学传输中表现出强光场约束、倏逝波传输和大波导色散等特性，在光通信、传感和非线性光学等领域具有良好的应用前景。     

聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯间隔的金纳米立方体与金膜复合结构的表面增强拉曼散射研究

金属纳米颗粒与金属薄膜的复合结构由于其局域表面等离子体和传播表面等离子体间的强共振耦合作用,可作为表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)基底,显著增强吸附分子的拉曼信号.本文提出了一种聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)间隔的90 nm金纳米立方体与50 nm金膜复合结构的SERS基底,通过有限元方法数值模拟,得到PMMA的最优化厚度为15 nm.实验制备了PMMA间隔层厚度为14 nm的复合结构,利用罗丹明6G (R6G)为拉曼探针分子, 633 nm的氦氖激光器作为激发光源,研究了复合结构和单一金纳米立方体的SERS效应,发现复合结构可以使探针分子产生比单一结构更强的拉曼信号.在此基础上,研究了不同浓度金纳米立方体水溶液条件下复合结构中R6G的拉曼光谱.结果表明,当金纳米立方体水溶液浓度为5.625μg/mL的条件下复合结构中R6G的拉曼信号最强,且可测量R6G的最低浓度达10~(–11) mol/L.     

Very slow surface plasmons: Theory and practice (Review)

The theory and practical applications of very slow (antisymmetric) optical plasmons are described. These plasmons can exist on thin metal films and filaments and (as standing waves) on metal spheres and ellipsoids. The material presented here extends the conventional concepts of electromagnetic modes of spaces, probability of spontaneous emission, construction of optical images, optical focusing, and the photon momentum. The reviewed achievements in this field have been obtained in the last years. The problem of the photon momentum in a medium has been a subject of irreconcilable disputes for nearly 100 years, beginning with Minkowski and Abraham’s famous papers. Various practical applications are considered, including experiments with the significant enhancement of atom spontaneous emission into a plasmon field mode of a nanoparticle; experiments on focusing optical radiation into a spot much smaller than the diffraction-limited one (the so-called almost ideal Pendry lens, which produces an image with details much smaller than the light wavelength); and, finally, a greatly increased (by factors of 10, 100, or more) photon momentum in plasmon.     

基于单个花状银纳米颗粒的表面增强拉曼散射效应研究

在室温下,以硝酸银为银源,抗坏血酸为还原剂,通过调节表面活性剂聚乙烯吡络烷酮的浓度,实现对花状银纳米颗粒的可控制备。利用扫描电子显微镜、原子力显微镜、X射线衍射和X射线能谱等手段检测并分析了材料的形貌结构和成分组成。实验结果表明,当聚乙烯吡络烷酮的浓度为0.1 mol/L时,所制备花状银纳米颗粒的表面结构达到最精细的状态且颗粒的尺寸达到微米量级,适合对单颗粒进行定位与光学性质研究。以结构最优化的花状银纳米颗粒为表面增强拉曼散射基底材料,以羟基苯甲酸为探针,对单个和少数颗粒的表面增强拉曼散射效应进行了研究,并借助暗场散射光谱分析了基底的表面增强拉曼散射机理。结果显示,该花状银纳米颗粒因其独特的表面结构为拉曼信号增强提供了大量“热点”。良好的拉曼性能以及较低的制备成本表明,该新型表面增强拉曼散射基底具有很大的应用前景。     

The observation of the localized surface plasmons and its coupling

The surface plasmons properties on gold film composed of inverted square pyramidal pits were investigated. The near‐field scanning optical microscopy image showed that the surface plasmons were mainly located in the cavity of the pits; this is consistent with the mapping image obtained using the Raman scattering intensity of Rhodamine 6G. The calculation results obtained by using the finite element method showed that the electric field mainly located in the pyramidal pits and the field distribution was not affected by the adjacent pits around it. Compared with the single pyramidal pit, the localized electric field intensity increased in the condition of the structure array because of the surface plasmons coupling effect. The surface‐enhanced Raman scattering spectra intensity decreased as the incident angle of the excited laser increased except that there are two peaks at around 5° and 17.5°, which can be attributed to the Bragg scattering of the surface plasmons. The reflectance spectra collected by a microscope at different magnifications were different. The intensity variation between surface‐enhanced Raman scattering spectra obtained using ×20 and ×50 objective illustrated that the adsorption peak in the reflectance spectra corresponded to the surface plasmons coupling effect. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Plasmonic nanoparticles and their analytical applications: A review

Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) have been reviewed herein for their fascinating optical properties in a wide spectral range and for their various applications. The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) bands of metal NPs can be tuned from visible to near infrared region by varying the shape of the metal NPs. As a result, the tuning of the SPR band over a spectral range is possible by making plasmonic NPs of different shapes. This review emphasizes fundamental studies of plasmonic NPs and nanocomposites with well-defined and controlled shapes that have several analytical applications such as molecular detection and determination in different fields. This review describes how oxidative etching and kinetic control can be utilized to manipulate the shape and optical properties of NPs. This review also describes the specific examples of the sensing applications of the localized surface plasmon resonance studies in which the researchers use both wavelength shift and surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensing to detect the molecules of chemical and biological relevance. The review ends with a perspective of the field, identifying the main challenges to be overcome and suggesting areas where the most promising developments are likely to happen in future.     

Nanoporous gold thin films synthesised via de-alloying of Au-based nanoglass for highly active SERS substrates

Nanoporous gold thin films have been fabricated through chemical de-alloying of Au-based nanoglass with a nanocolumnar structure, with composition Au₄₀Cu₂₈Ag₇Pd₅Si₂₀ (at.%), that had previously been deposited by magnetron sputtering. By varying the de-alloying conditions, gold ligaments ranging from 20 to 100?nm were obtained. The microstructure and chemical composition of the as-prepared films were characterised by various techniques. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of thin films was investigated using rhodamine 6G. The results indicate that the main microstructural features with interconnected ligaments and defects of nanoporous gold result in significant SERS enhancement.     

About the nature of increase of the nonlinear optical response of a rough surface

It is shown that during the propagation of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) in the system of two touching spheres (or cones) when one is a metal and the other is a semiconductor, the conditions of strong localization of the surface wave are realized. At the point of contact, an essential decrease of the wavelength of the SPP is observed and the diffraction processes do not hinder its localization on the nanometric scale. As a result, wave fields increase anomalously. The considered phenomena open a new possibility to propose the experimental way for exploring the gigantic enhancement of the nonlinear optical response from a rough surface.     

Airy plasmons: non‐diffracting optical surface waves

Airy beams represent an important class of non‐diffracting waves which can be realized on a flat surface. Being generated in the form of surface‐plasmon polaritons, such Airy plasmons demonstrate many remarkable properties: they do not diffract while propagating along parabolic trajectories, and they recover their shape after passing through obstacles. This paper reviews the basic physics of Airy plasmons in both paraxial and non‐paraxial cases, and describes the experimental methods for generation of Airy surface waves on metal surfaces, including a control of their trajectories, as well as the interference of Airy plasmons and hot‐spot generation. Many unusual properties of Airy plasmons can be utilized for useful applications, including plasmonic circuitry and surface tweezers. Picture: Observation of two colliding Airy plasmons.     

Controllable optical activity of non-spherical Ag and Co SERS substrate with different magnetic field

We experimentally fabricate a non-spherical Ag and Co surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS) substrate, which not only retains the metallic plasmon resonant effect, but also possesses the magnetic field controllable characteristics.Raman detections are carried out with the test crystal violet(CV) and rhodamine 6G(R6G) molecules with the initiation of different magnitudes of external magnetic field. Experimental results indicate that our prepared substrate shows a higher SERS activity and magnetic controllability, where non-spherical Ag nanoparticles are driven to aggregate effectively by the magnetized Co and plenty of hot-spots are built around the metallic Ag nanoparticles, thereby leading to the enhancement of local electromagnetic field. Moreover, when the external magnetic field is increased, our prepared substrate demonstrates excellent SERS enhancement. With the 2500 Gs and 3500 Gs(1 Gs = 10~(-4)T) magnetic fields, SERS signal can also be obtained with the detection limit lowering down to 10~(-9)M. These results indicate that our proposed magnetic field controlled substrate enables us to freely achieve the enhanced and controllable SERS effect, which can be widely used in the optical sensing, single molecule detection and bio-medical applications.     

弯曲银/银同质结纳米线的合成及其SERS表征

用液相法合成弯曲的银/银(Ag/Ag)同质结纳米线, 即由Ag/Ag同质结和Ag纳米棒组成。同质结相邻的两个Ag纳米棒以一定的角度形成弯曲的Ag纳米线, 其角度可能是锐角, 也可能是钝角, 而且其长度可达几个微米。研究发现, 反应温度对弯曲Ag/Ag同质结纳米线的形成具有非常重要的作用, 改变反应温度, 得到的是其它形状的纳米粒子; 同时, 表面增强拉曼光谱(SERS)表征发现, 与Ag纳米球和纳米线相比, 弯曲Ag/Ag同质结纳米线具有更好的SERS活性。     

DFT理论探讨银电极表面吸附吡啶和水分子的表面增强拉曼光谱

本文利用密度泛函方法计算了吡啶和水分子分别吸附于粗糙银电极表面的拉曼光谱强度。结果表明,在不发生共振拉曼散射情况下,拉曼强度随电极表面负电荷量的增加而显著增大。理论预测与实验结果一致。     

Perforated nanocap array: Facile fabrication process and efficient surface enhanced Raman scattering with fluorescence suppression

Recently, individual reduced-symmetry metal nanostructures and their plasmonic properties have been studied extensively. However, little attention has been paid to the approach to fabricating ordered reduced-symmetry metal nanostructure arrays. In this paper, a novel perforated silver nanocap array with high surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity and fluorescence suppression is reported. The array is fabricated by electron beam evaporating Ag onto the perforated barrier layer side of a hard anodization (HA) anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template. The morphology and optical property of the perforated silver nanocap array are characterized by an atomic force microscope (AFM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and absorption spectra. The results of SERS measurements reveal that the perforated silver nanocap array offers high SERS activity and fluorescence suppression compared with an imperforated silver nanocap array.     

Synthesis and Simulation Study of Right Silver Bipyramids via Seed-Mediated Growth cum Selective Oxidative Etching Approach

In this study, a simple method to synthesize right silver bipyramid (AgBP) nanostructures via the seed-mediated growth cum oxidative etching approach in aqueous solution is developed. The key strategy of this method is to control the growth and etching process by careful adjustment of the reactants concentration. Ascorbic acid (AA) is used to reduce silver precursor while cetyltrimethylammonium bromide stabilizer is used to direct the preferential growth of (100) facets. The presence of Cu²⁺ and AA in the reaction mixture also enable in-situ generation of H₂O₂, leading to selective etching of (111) facets, which is crucial to the formation of anisotropic AgBPs. The structure-properties of AgBPs is systematically investigated through a series of experiments and theoretical simulations. Transmission electron microscope images and X-ray diffraction patterns of the as-synthesized AgBPs show the formation of single crystalline twined nanostructures with a relatively high yield. These results suggest the important role of the excitation of electric dipole in enhancing the electric field at the six sharp corners of AgBPs, making them especially promising for a wide range of technological applications including surface-enhanced Raman scattering with a significant enhancement factor of 1.50 × 10⁵ as demonstrated herein.     

氯离子对固定银纳米颗粒SERS活性的影响

通过在硅片上修饰聚乙烯吡咯烷酮(PVP)对银纳米粒子进行组装,得到均一的表面增强拉曼光谱(SERS)基底。借助于此基底,在水溶液环境中,以异烟酸(INA)和罗丹明6g(R6g)作为探测分子,研究了氯离子(Cl-)对SERS增强的影响。结果表明,对于不同的探针分子,Cl-对银颗粒SERS活性的影响存在选择性。对于INA分子,在溶液中没有Cl-的情况下,分子通过羧基以锐角吸附在银颗粒表面,具有良好的SERS谱。在加入Cl-后,由于竞争吸附,INA分子脱附,SERS信号消失。R6g分子在银颗粒表面没有特异吸附,Cl-的加入并没有影响其与银颗粒的作用状态,在加入Cl-后SERS光谱没有发生显著变化。     

Nanoparticles and Giant Raman Scattering

The field for linear aggregates of metallic nanospheres is calculated. This field is analogous to that of the surface TM₀ wave of a metallic cylinder with a negative dielectric permittivity. The spontaneous emission of an atom into a surface wave is shown to be greatly enhanced. This enhancement is as great as 10¹⁴ times for a two-photon process (Raman scattering). The TM₀ wave is concentrated in the vicinity of the nanocylinder surface instead of extending in space to infinity. Being restricted in its length, the nanocylinder radiates efficiently into free space in contrast to the case of an infinite (plane or cylindrical) surface. The duration of the atomic dipole radiation is about 1 fs under the conditions discussed. The situation considered can be realized readily in actual experiments. It can explain the pronounced increase in the Raman intensity in the experiments described by Nie and Emory in 1997.     

Effect of Cr implantation on structural and optical properties of AlN thin films

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown AlN thin layer on sapphire substrates have been implanted with Cr⁺ ions for various dose from 10¹³ to 10¹⁵ cm⁻². The analyses were carried out by an X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, a spectrophotometer and spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) for structural and optical analyses. E₂(high) and A₁(LO) Raman modes of AlN layer have been observed and analyzed. The behavior of Raman shift and the variation in intensity and in peak width of Raman modes as a function of ions flux are explained on the basis of chromium substituting aluminum atom and implantation-induced lattice damage. Both Raman and X-ray analyses reveal that the incorporation of chromium atoms increases in the host lattice with the increasing of Cr ions fluence. The band gap energy was determined by using transmission spectra. It was found that the band gap energy decreases as the ion dose increases. The band gap of the unimplanted AlN is 6.02 eV and it decreases down to 5.92 eV for the Cr⁺-implanted AlN with a ion dose of 1×10¹⁵ cm⁻². Optical properties such as optical constants of the samples were examined by using a spectroscopic ellipsometer. It was observed that the refractive index (n) decreases with the increasing of ion dose.     

Plasmon‐enhanced Raman scattering of coaxial hybrid nanowires made with light‐emitting polymer and gold

We report on the plasmon‐enhanced Raman scattering of coaxial hybrid nanowires (NWs) made with light emitting poly(3‐methylthiophene) (P3MT) and gold (Au) core or coating. Absorption spectra of coaxial hybrid NWs showed the absorption peaks because of localized surface plasmon (SP) excitation at ~ 567 and ~ 610 nm, in addition to the π–π* transition peaks of P3MT. Raman spectra of a single strand of coaxial hybrid NW and plain P3MT NW was obtained by using three different wavelengths of laser excitation of 514, 633, and 785 nm. We found that Raman intensities of hybrid coaxial NWs were enhanced by 4 to 15 times over those of plain P3MT NWs with the Raman excitation wavelengths close to the observed SP energies of coaxial NWs. We attributed the observed enhancement of the Raman signal to the resonance of the incident laser with the matching SP energies, rather than the possible doping level change, in hybrid coaxial NWs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.