Surface plasmon interference on the surface of an aluminum-covered fiber core array for solgel fabrication of submicrometer gratings

Wenjie Wang; Miao He; Yong Zhang; Shuti Li; Anhe He; Xin Wang; Candong Hu; Qiuxiang Zhu; Jun Zhou; Guoxiang Ning

doi:10.1364/OL.35.003823

Surface plasmon interference on the surface of an aluminum-covered fiber core array for solgel fabrication of submicrometer gratings

Opt Lett. 2010 Nov 15;35(22):3823-5. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.003823.

Authors

Wenjie Wang¹, Miao He, Yong Zhang, Shuti Li, Anhe He, Xin Wang, Candong Hu, Qiuxiang Zhu, Jun Zhou, Guoxiang Ning

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.

PMID: 21082009
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.003823

Abstract

An interesting method to fabricate submicrometer gratings (SMGs) utilizing the interference of surface plasmon waves (SPWs) is presented. The stationary wave field off the aluminum (Al) layer surface of an Al-covered UV fiber core, formed by the interference of the induced SPWs, has been employed as a submicrometer photolithography tool to inscribe SMGs on the surface of a self-processing hybrid HfO(2)/SiO(2) solgel ﬁlm. Using atomic force microscopy, the period of the fabricated SMGs was measured as 105 nm. The intensity distribution of the stationary wave field was measured by a near-field scanning optical microscope and anastomosed with theoretical values calculated by using FDTD simulations.