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ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202200759
Keywords
circular dichroism spectroscopy; linear dichroism spectroscopy; photonic crystals; surface-enhanced spectroscopy; surface waves
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- MCIN [PRX19/00485]
- ERDF
- FESR [PON ARS01_00906]
- Politecnico di Milano within the CRUI-CARE Agreement
- MCIN/AEI [PID2019-110430GB-C21]
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Bloch surface waves sustained by truncated 1D photonic crystals are widely used in surface-enhanced spectroscopy. A novel design of a 1D photonic crystal has been realized in which the TE and TM modes exhibit the same phase velocity over a broadband spectral range, enabling the generation of surface waves with a controlled polarization state. This has important implications for polarization-resolved surface-enhanced analysis.
Bloch surface waves sustained by truncated 1D photonic crystals (1DPCs) are well known tools for surface-enhanced spectroscopy. They provide strongly confined fields with uniform distribution over a large surface area, a characteristic exploited in standard refractometric sensing. However, their application to polarization-sensitive investigations is not straightforward because the transverse electric (TE) and magnetic (TM) surface modes possess distinct dispersion relations, therefore their relative phase is not conserved along propagation and the polarization state of any wave obtained by combining these modes is ill-defined. In this work, a novel design of a 1DPC is realized in which the TE and TM modes exhibit the same phase velocity over a broadband spectral range and thus their dispersion relations overlap. The capability to simultaneously excite TE and TM modes with a well-defined phase relation allows the generation of surface waves with a controlled polarization state. This paves the way to polarization-resolved surface-enhanced analysis, including, for example, linear and circular dichroism spectroscopy of grafted molecular layers at the photonic crystal surface.
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