title: Surface plasmon-coupled emission and Fabry-Perot resonance in the sample layer: A theoretical approach.
abstract: A theoretical approach is used to investigate the coupling of surface plasmon-coupled emission to Fabry-Perot resonance in the sample layer. Quantities investigated are emission angles, polarization, power levels, and fluorescence lifetimes. The results are compared to experimental findings. For comparison a layered structure without surface plasmons, possessing only dielectric Fabry-Perot resonances, is explored. This structure seems to be amenable to s-polarization only but is in principle loss-less and has more degrees of freedom for design and optimization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden. nils.calander@fy.chalmers.se
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Calander
mesh_terms: D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D008027:Light; D008857:Microscopy, Interference; D008956:Models, Chemical; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012834:Silver