Brongersma M.L., Kik P.G. (eds.) Surface plasmon nanophotonics

Springer, 2007. - 268 pp.
The development of advanced dielectric photonic structures has enabled tremendous control over the propagation and manipulation of light. Structures such as waveguides, splitters, mixers, and resonators now play a central role in the telecommunications industry. This book will discuss an exciting new class of photonic devices, known as surface plasmon nanophotonic structures. Surface plasmons are easily accessible excitations in metals and semiconductors and involve a collective motion of the conduction electrons. These excitations can be exploited to manipulate electromagnetic waves at optical frequencies ("light") in new ways that are unthinkable in conventional dielectric structures. The field of plasmon nanophotonics is rapidly developing and impacting a wide range of areas including: electronics, photonics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. The book will highlight several exciting new discoveries that have been made, while providing a clear discussion of the underlying physics, the nanofabrication issues, and the materials considerations involved in designing plasmonic devices with new functionality.
The book is aimed at researchers and students interested in entering the field of plasmon nanophotonics, while serving as a reference to scientists already active in this area of research. It is written at the level of a first year graduate student with some background in electromagnetic theory and working knowledge of Maxwell's equations.Surface Plasmon Nanophotonics (by Pieter G. Kik and Mark L. Brongersma).
Near-Field and Far-Field Properties of Nanoparticle Arrays (by Andreas Hohenau, Alfred Leitner and Franz R. Aussenegg).
Theory of Light Transmission Through Periodically Structured Nano-Apertures (by F.J. Garcıa-Vidal, F. Lopez-Tejeira, J. Bravo-Abad and L. Martın-Moreno).
Development and Near-Field Characterization of Surface Plasmon Waveguides (by J.-C. Weeber, A.-L. Baudrion, M. U. Gonzalez, A. Dereux, Rashid Zia and Mark L. Brongersma).
Numerical Simulations of Long-Range Plasmonic Transmission Lines (by Aloyse Degiron and David R. Smith).
Surface Plasmon Polariton Guiding in Photonic Bandgap Structures (by Thomas Sondergaard and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi).
Subwavelength-Scale Plasmon Waveguides (by Harry A. Atwater, Jennifer A. Dionne and Luke A. Sweatlock).
Optical Superlens (by X. Zhang, M. Ambati, N. Fang, H. Lee, Z. Liu, C. Sun and Y. Xiong).
Optical Field Enhancement with Plasmon Resonant Bowtie Nanoantennas (by G.S. Kino, Arvind Sundaramurthy, P.J. Schuck, D.P. Fromm and W.E. Moerner).
Near-Field Optical Excitation and Detection of Surface Plasmons (by Alexandre Bouhelier and Lukas Novotny).
Principles of Near-Field Optical Mapping (by Alain Dereux).
Overview of Simulation Techniques for Plasmonic Devices (by Georgios Veronis and Shanhui Fan).
Plasmon Hybridization in Complex Nanostructures (by J.M. Steele, N.K. Grady, P. Nordlander and N.J. Halas).
Sensing Proteins with Adaptive Metal Nanostructures (by Vladimir P. Drachev, Mark D. Thoreson and Vladimir M. Shalaev).
Integrated Optics Based on Long-Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons (by Pierre Berini).
Localized Surface Plasmons for Optical Data Storage Beyond the Diffraction Limit (by Junji Tominaga).
Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission (by Zygmunt Gryczynski, Evgenia G. Matveeva, Nils Calander, Jian Zhang, Joseph R. Lakowicz and Ignacy Gryczynski).