Electrooptic reflection with surface plasmons

✍ Scribed by Y. Wang; H. J. Simon

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0306-8919
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00430335

✦ Synopsis

Electrooptic reflection with surface plasmons is studied both experimentally and theoretically. An attenuated total reflection (ATR) geometry is used in which a quartz electrooptic crystal onto which a thin Ag film has been evaporated is contacted to the hypotenuse face of a high-index prism. Modulation in the ATR of an He-Ne beam near the angle for surface plasmon excitation is observed when a low-frequency electric field is applied to the quartz crystal. Experiments have been done with both single and multiple boundary surface waves. The angular spectra show phase reversal structure due to the interference of the modulated reflected wave with the ATR wave. The modulated reflectance is calculated directly from a well-known solution to the boundary value problem in nonlinear optics. Good quantitative agreement with the observations is obtained.