Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 810-815Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00219
Keywords
metal-dielectric waveguide; waveguide-coupled emission; plasmon-controlled fluorescence; surface plasmon-coupled emission; surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence; total internal reflection
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Funding
- National Institute of Health [GM107986, EB006521, OD019975]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2013CBA01703]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61427818, 11374286, 11204251]
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We report a metal-dielectric planar structure that provides high-efficiency coupling of fluorescence at distances over 100 nm away from the metal surface. This hybrid metal-dielectric waveguide (MDW) consists of a continuous metal film coated with a dielectric layer. We observed efficient long-range coupling of rhodamine B on top of a 130 nm layer of silica, resulting in a narrow angular distribution of the emission. The high-efficiency radiation through the Ag film appears to be due to coupling of the fluorophore to an optical waveguide mode with a long propagation length and a narrow resonance. The results were consistent with simulations. These multilayer structures can be made using vapor deposition and/or spin coating, and the silica surface can be used for conjugation to biomolecules and surface-selective detection. This simple hybrid metal-dielectric structure provides new opportunities for fluorescence sensing, genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics.
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