Determination of thickness and optical dispersion property of gold film using spectroscopy of surface plasmon in frequency domain

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/2/027301

Abstract We propose to use wavelength modulation approach, i.e., the spectroscopy of surface plasmon in frequency domain to characterize the optical dispersion property of gold film. Using this method, we determine the dispersion relationship of gold film in a wavelength range from 537.12 nm to 905.52 nm, and our results accord well with the reported results by other authors. This method is particularly suited for studying the optical dispersion properties of thin metal films, because a series of dielectric constants over a wide spectral range can be determined simultaneously via only a single scan of the incident angle, thereby avoiding the repeated measurements required when using angular modulation approach.

Keywords: surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) optical dispersion property gold film

Received: 11 July 2012
Revised: 27 August 2012
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PACS:	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	78.20.-e	(Optical properties of bulk materials and thin films)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61177079); the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Electronics Engineering, College of Heilongjiang Province, China (Grant No. DZZD20100014); and the Youth Science Foundation of Heilongjiang University, China (Grant No. QL200914).

Corresponding Authors: Ye Hong-An
E-mail: yehonganhlj@gmail.com

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Huang Yan (黄妍), Ye Hong-An (叶红安), Li Song-Quan (李松权), Dou Yin-Feng (窦寅丰) Determination of thickness and optical dispersion property of gold film using spectroscopy of surface plasmon in frequency domain 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 027301

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