title: Extremely short-length surface plasmon resonance devices.
abstract: The impact of the system design on the control of coupling between planar waveguide modes and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) is analyzed. We examine how the efficiency of the coupling can be enhanced by an appropriate dimensioning of a multi-layer device structure without using additional gratings. We demonstrate that by proper design the length of the device can be dramatically reduced through fabrication a surface plasmon resonance sensor based on the SPP-photon transformation rather then on SPP dissipation.
authors.affiliation: A. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics NAS of Ukraine, 12 Academician Proskura Street, 61085 Kharkov, Ukraine. nesterovml@gmail.com
authors.forename: Maxim L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nesterov
authors.forename: Alexandre V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kats
authors.forename: Sergei K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Turitsyn
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*