Metal enhanced fluorescence is a phenomenon that occurs when a fluorophore is positioned near a conductive structure. Structures can be formed by the interaction of high-energy laser with a sample, on which the femtosecond laser pulses interact with the surface without heat effects. This work aims to study nanostructure formation in polished bulk silver, in order to amplify signals of fluorescence. A Titanium-sapphire femtosecond laser was used to mark silver surfaces. SEM images shows nanostructures formed in chaotic agglomerate of nanospheres with size of 50-800nm. Using Protoporphyrin-IX, the fluorescence amplification was around 300 times compared to a surface without the nanostructures.

Date Published: 2 March 2020
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 11268, Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing XIV, 1126822 (2 March 2020); doi: 10.1117/12.2545963

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11268:
Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing XIV
Udo Klotzbach; Akira Watanabe; Rainer Kling, Editor(s)