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Effect of finite aperture on Interferometric Surface Plasmon microscopic sensing performance

  • Bei Zhang
  • , Peng Yan
  • , Le Wang
  • , Chengqian Zhang
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Interferometric Surface Plasmons (SPs) microscopic sensing can be used to measure the thickness or refractive index variation of nanomaterial within the order of diffraction limit in the lateral directions. However experimental results in literatures have shown the technique suffers from severely low signal to noise ratio (SNR) which limits its practical resolution and may cause failure of the technique in some hostile environment. In this paper, we study the effect of finite numerical aperture (NA) on the interferometric SPs sensing performance and explore the possibility of imposing proper pupil apodization functions to suppress the effect. We also propose a TM-only mode apodization filter to further improve the sensing performance of the interferometric SPs microscopy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages818-822
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509060931
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Nov 2016
Event2016 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 8 Aug 201611 Aug 2016

Publication series

Name2016 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2016 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period8/08/1611/08/16

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