Surface-Electromagnetic-Wave-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Overlayers on Metals

Y. J. Chen; W. P. Chen; E. Burstein

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1207

Surface-Electromagnetic-Wave-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Overlayers on Metals

Y. J. Chen, W. P. Chen, and E. Burstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 1207 – Published 17 May 1976

Abstract

Using a general formulation we show that by using surface electromagnetic waves in an attenuated-total-reflection prism configuration it should be possible to enhance the intensity of Raman scattering by a thin overlayer on a Ag surface by two orders of magnitude and that the use of surface electromagnetic waves may in fact make it possible to observe coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering by the overlayer.

Received 18 March 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1207

Authors & Affiliations

Y. J. Chen^*, W. P. Chen, and E. Burstein^†

Department of Physics and the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174

^*IBM Fellow (1975-1976).
^†Work supported in part by the U. S. Army Research Offic, Durham, under Contract No. DAHC/0181 and by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract No. CNF-44620-75-C-0069 (monitored by the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research).