Visible second-harmonic light generated from a self-organized centrosymmetric lattice of nanospheres

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2864-2872

  Maymó, Marc ^c   Martorell, Jordi ^c   Molinos Gómez, Albert ^a   López Calahorra, Francisco ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LATEXES; LIGHT; MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES;

CENTROSYMMETRIC LATTICE; LIGHT GENERATED; ORGANIC SYNTHESIS METHODOLOGY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; QUADRATIC NONLINEAR INTERACTION;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 33645525302     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002864     Document Type: Article

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