The invention discloses a design method of an SERS substrate based on a 
surface plasmon polariton effect, which comprises the following steps of: setting a structure of an SERS substrate, including aSiO2 substrate layer, an Au 
metal film layer and a SiO2 
dielectric layer, by adopting a 
time domain finite difference 
algorithm; determining initial conditions of 
simulation; sequentially changing thethickness of the Au 
metal film layer, the thickness of the SiO2 
dielectric layer, the thickness of the Au top 
metal layer and the gap size of the double-circular-hole structure, calculating the 
electric field intensity distribution of the SERS substrate by utilizing FDTD solution 
software, calculating an enhancement factor of the SERS substrate according to the 
electric field intensity distribution, and screening out a structure with a relatively large enhancement factor as the optimized SERS substrate. According to the structure designed by the invention, incident 
light energy can be effectively converted into surface 
plasma wave energy, and effective 
coupling of LSPR and PSPR is generated by 
etching the 
composite film SERS substrate of the nano double-hole ordered array, so that an SERSsignal is enhanced to the maximum extent.