Revisiting Newton's rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection

Yun Zheng; Jie Bian; Xiao-Long Wang; Ju-Xiu Liu; Peng Feng; Hai-Xiong Ge; Olivier J F Martin; Wei-Hua Zhang

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.156

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Revisiting Newton's rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection

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- Revisiting Newton's rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 4, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  2.Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
- Author bio：
  
  WH Zhang, Email: zwh@nju.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.156
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- Published：2016-12，
  
  Published Online：15 April 2016，
  
  Received：09 December 2015，
  
  Revised：12 April 2016，
  
  Accepted：13 April 2016
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Zheng, Y. et al. Revisiting Newton's rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16156 (2016).
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Zheng, Y. et al. Revisiting Newton's rings with a plasmonic optical flat for high-accuracy surface inspection. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16156 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.156.

摘要

Abstract

Two parallel optical surfaces often exhibit colorful fringes along the lines of equal thickness because of the interference of light. This simple phenomenon allows one to observe subwavelength corrugations on a reflective surface by simply placing on it a flat reference dielectric surface

a so-called optical flat

and inspecting the resultant interference pattern. In this work

we extend this principle from dielectric surfaces to two-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures. Optical couplings between an Au nanodisk array and an Au thin film were measured quantitatively using two different techniques

namely

the classical Newton's rings method and a closed-loop nano-positioning system. Extremely high spectral sensitivity to the inter-surface distance was observed in the near-field coupling regime

where a 1-nm change in distance could alter the resonance wavelength by almost 10 nm

> 40 times greater than the variation in the case without near-field coupling. With the help of a numerical fitting technique

the resonance wavelength could be determined with a precision of 0.03 nm

corresponding to a distance precision as high as 0.003 nm. Utilizing this effect

we demonstrated that a plasmonic nanodisk array can be utilized as a plasmonic optical flat

with which nanometer-deep grooves can be directly visualized using a low-cost microscope.

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near-field optical couplingoptical flatplasmonics

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