Numerical study of surface plasmon enhanced nonlinear absorption and refraction

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10823-10834

  Kohlgraf Owens, Dana C ^a   Kik, Pieter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EFFECTIVE MEDIA THEORY; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; INDUCED FIELD; MAXWELL-GARNETT; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR REFRACTION; SURFACE-PLASMON; SURFACE-PLASMON RESONANCE;

SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 47249158555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.16.016823     Document Type: Article

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