Tailored second harmonic generation from self-organized metal nano-wires arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3603-3609

  Belardini, Alessandro ^a   Larciprete, Maria Cristina ^a   Centini, Marco ^a   Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Sibilia, Concita ^a   Bertolotti, Mario ^a   Toma, Andrea ^b   Chiappe, Daniele ^b   De Mongeot, Francesco Buatier ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SUBSTRATES; WIRE;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PECULIAR MORPHOLOGY; PERIODIC PATTERN; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; SECOND-HARMONIC EMISSION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 61549119161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003603     Document Type: Article

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