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Super-Narrow, Extremely High Quality Collective Plasmon Resonances at Telecommunication Wavelengths

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In this chapter we describe the theory, fabrication and characterisation of gold nanostripe arrays on a thin gold film, with the spectral line full width at half-maximum (FWHM) as low as 5 nm and quality factors Q reaching 300, at important fibre-optic telecommunication wavelengths around 1.5 \(\upmu \)m.

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    For completeness, we note that an extra level of sensitivity can be achieved by measuring changes in phase instead of reflection for resonances with close to zero reflection at their maximum strength. This idea is explored in greater depth in Chap. 7.

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    For this reason the coupled dipole approximation is sometimes referred to as Markel-Schatz or Schatz-Markel theory [10].

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    Figure 4.5a and b are reproduced from Ben Thackray’s preliminary studies of super-narrow plasmon resonances [1]. The \(a = 1463\) nm and \(a = 1485\) nm curves in Fig. 4.5a and all data in Fig. 4.5b are from stripe arrays fabricated and characterised by Ben Thackray (again with assistance from Gregory Auton for lithography) in the early stages of this study.

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Thomas, P.A. (2018). Super-Narrow, Extremely High Quality Collective Plasmon Resonances at Telecommunication Wavelengths. In: Narrow Plasmon Resonances in Hybrid Systems. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97526-9_4

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