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Experiment of 2×2 Fused Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

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  • Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China

Received date: 2011-12-16

  Online published: 2012-02-29

Abstract

Based on the optical fiber evanescent-wave excitation and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), we have carried out experimental studies on SERS characteristics of the 2×2 fused fiber coupler coated with Ag colloid particles. By stretching a pair of fused single-mode fibers with coating Ag colloid on its surface, the formed component can work as the surface-active substrate to perform Raman enhancement. With increase of the taper length, fiber core diameters decrease and less energy are bounded in the fiber. This enables stronger evanescent-wave to leak outward and become a Raman exciting source. In the experiments, the Raman spectra of R6G solutions has been detected at the coupling zone. The minimum detected concentration is 10-8 mol/L.

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CHEN Zhen-yi,CHEN Na,HU Ling,WANG Ting-yun,PANG Fu-fei,LIU Lin . Experiment of 2×2 Fused Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering[J]. Journal of Shanghai University, 2012 , 18(1) : 7 -11 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-2861.2012.01.002

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