Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with High-Order Fiber Vector Beam Excitation.

Sensors (Basel)

MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.

Published: November 2018

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study focuses on high-order fiber vector beams and their effects on tip-enhanced Raman spectra, showing they produce stronger longitudinal electric fields than traditional linear beams.
  • By combining high-order fiber vector beams with linear polarized light in a TERS setup, researchers found that the resulting Raman signal from the vector beams was significantly enhanced.
  • This finding indicates that high-order fiber vector beams could serve as an effective new source for excitation in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

Article Abstract

We investigated tip-enhanced Raman spectra excited by high-order fiber vector beams. Theoretical analysis shows that the high-order fiber vector beams have stronger longitudinal electric field components than linearly polarized light under tight focusing conditions. By introducing the high-order fiber vector beams and the linearly polarized beam from a fiber vector beam generator based on an electrically-controlled acoustically-induced fiber grating into a top-illumination tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) setup, the tip-enhanced Raman signal produced by the high-order fiber vector beams was 1.6 times as strong as that produced by the linearly polarized light. This result suggests a new type of efficient excitation light beams for TERS.

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