Nonlinear microscopy of localized field enhancements in fractal shaped periodic metal nanostructures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1585-1592

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Evlyukhin, Andrey ^b   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^c   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VLADIMIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FRACTALS; GOLD; LASER BEAMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL LATTICES;

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOLUMINESCENCES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 59949092061     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001585     Document Type: Article

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