title: High-resolution surface plasmon resonance sensor based on linewidth-optimized nanohole array transmittance.
abstract: A high spectral resolution, 2D nanohole-array-based surface plasmon resonance sensor that operates at normal or near normal incidence--facilitating high spatial resolution imaging--is presented. The angular and spectral transmittance of the structure is modified from a Fano type to a pure Lorentzian line shape with a parallel and orthogonal polarizer-analyzer pair. This change leads to a linewidth narrowing that maximizes the sensor resolution, which we show to be of O(10(-5)) refractive index units (RIU). We estimate the potential of this system of O(10(-6)) RIU under optimal conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 92093, USA. ktetz@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Kevin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Tetz
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Yeshaiahu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fainman