We present a novel noncontact, photothermal technique, based on the focus error signal of a commercial CD pickup head that allows direct determination of absorption in thin films. Combined with extinction methods, this technique yields the scattering contribution to the losses. Surface plasmon polaritons are excited using the Kretschmann configuration in thin Au films of varying thickness. By measuring the extinction and absorption simultaneously, it is shown that dielectric constants and thickness retrieval leads to inconsistencies if the model does not account for scattering. © 2009 Optical Society of America.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Photothermal measurement of absorption and scattering losses in thin films excited by surface plasmons |
Autor: | Domené, E.A.; Balzarotti, F.; Bragas, A.V.; Martínez, O.E. |
Filiación: | Laboratorio de Electrónica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Argentina |
Palabras clave: | Electromagnetic wave polarization; Excited states; Gold; Plasmons; Absorption and scatterings; Direct determination; Extinction methods; Focus error signal; Kretschmann configuration; Photo-thermal techniques; Photothermal measurements; Surface plasmon polaritons; Thin films; absorption; article; artificial membrane; energy transfer; light; methodology; photon; radiation scattering; refractometry; surface plasmon resonance; thermography; Absorption; Energy Transfer; Light; Membranes, Artificial; Photons; Refractometry; Scattering, Radiation; Surface Plasmon Resonance; Thermography |
Año: | 2009 |
Volumen: | 34 |
Número: | 24 |
Página de inicio: | 3797 |
Página de fin: | 3799 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.34.003797 |
Título revista: | Optics Letters |
Título revista abreviado: | Opt. Lett. |
ISSN: | 01469592 |
CODEN: | OPLED |
CAS: | Membranes, Artificial |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01469592_v34_n24_p3797_Domene |