Observation of saturable and reverse-saturable absorption at longitudinal surface plasmon resonance in gold nanorods

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Elim, Hendry I ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Lee, Jim Yang ^a   Mi, Jun ^a   Ji, Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; PICOSECONDS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; WAVELENGTH DISPERSION;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 33644547024     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2177366     Document Type: Article

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