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  • Proceedings of the International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim 2011
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
  • paper J714

Plasmonic Enhancement of Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensors

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Abstract

We present analysis of a whispering gallery mode resonator with a metallic nanorod bound to its surface. We show that the excitation of a localized surface plasmon resonance in the nanorod can reduce the optical mode volume of the resonator by as much as 3 × 104 via a local enhancement of the electric field, and improve its detection sensitivity as a biological sensor. Optical frequency shifts as large as 15 MHz are predicted for typical proteins, and the minimum detectable molecular polarizability is calculated to be about 10 Å3.

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