Kramers-Kronig Relation for Attenuated Total Reflection from a Metal-Dielectric Interface Where Surface Plasmon Polaritons Are Excited
- Authors
- Ju, Heongkyu
- Issue Date
- Nov-2021
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- Causality; Kramers–Kronig relation; Optical density; Optical dispersion; Phase dispersion; Reflection spectrum; Surface plasmon resonance
- Citation
- Nanomaterials, v.11, no.11
- Journal Title
- Nanomaterials
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 11
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/83447
- DOI
- 10.3390/nano11113063
- ISSN
- 2079-4991
- Abstract
- The applicability of the Kramers–Kronig relation for attenuated total reflection (ATR) from a metal–dielectric interface that can excite surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) is theoretically investigated. The plasmon-induced attenuation of reflected light can be taken as the resonant absorption of light through a virtual absorptive medium. The optical phase shift of light reflected from the SPP-generating interface is calculated using the KK relation, for which the spectral dependence of ATR is used at around the plasmonic resonance. The KK relation-calculated phase shift shows good agreement with that directly obtained from the reflection coefficient, calculated by a field transfer matrix formula at around the resonance. This indicates that physical causality also produces the spectral dependence of the phase of the leakage field radiated by surface plasmons that would interfere with the reflected part of light incident to the interface. This is analogous with optical dispersion in an absorptive medium where the phase of the secondary field induced by a medium polarization, which interferes with a polarization-stimulating incident field, has a spectral dependence that stems from physical causality. © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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