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Notizen: Radiative Decay of Non Radiative Surface Plasmons Excited by Light
E. Kretschmann,H. Raether +1 more
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In this paper, it has been shown that the non-radiative mode excited by light can also radiate under certain conditions if they are excited by electrons (grazing incidence of electrons on a rough surface or at normal incidence on a grating).Abstract:
There are two modes of surface plasma waves: 1) Non-radiative modes with phase velocities Cü/k smaller than the velocity of light c. They cannot decay into photons in general. 2) Radiative modes with (o/k > c which couple directly with photons 1. The following paper is concerned with the excitation of these modes by light and their decay into photons. It has been shown that the radiative mode on thin silverand potassium-films can be excited by light and that the mode reradiates light almost into all directions with an intensity maximum at the plasma frequency cOp 2. It had been further observed that the non-radiative modes radiate under certain conditions if they are excited by electrons (grazing incidence of electrons on . a rough surface3 or at normal incidence on a grating 4) . The mechanism of this emission is in these cases always the same: The \"wave vector\" of the roughness of the surface or its irregularity changes the plasmon wave vector k so that a) in the case of the radiative mode light emission is found in directions in addition to that of reflexion and transmission, b) in the case of the non-radiative mode its wave vector is reduced so that the condition /c<Cco/c is fulfilled and the mode is able to radiate. The theoretical considerations5 are in good agreement with the observations. The experiments described here shall demonstrate that the non-radiative mode excited by light can also radiate. The non-radiative mode is produced by the inhomogeneous light wave obtained by total reflexion inside a quartz prism as proposed in 6. If the angle of incidence inside the prism is 6>0, the wave vector of the inhomogeneous wave is (co/c) • Vsq' sin 0O (fq = 2.16 for quartz) and thus can excite a non radiative mode on the boundary of the prism for j/fq sin 0O > 1 or 90° > @o > 43°. If one vaporises a silver film directly on the quartz surface the inhomogeneous light wave penetrates into the silver film and excites a nonradiative mode on the boundary silver/air. The excitation will be highest for those frequencies which fulfill the dispersion relation of these surface plasmons.read more
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