Saturable absorption of femtosecond laser pulses at surface plasmon resonance in gold nanoshells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7394, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ros, Ida ^a   Schiavuta, Piero ^b   Mattei, Giovanni ^a   Bozio, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CIVEN Nano Fabrication Facility   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gold nanoshell; Nonlinear properties; Z scan

Indexed keywords

AFM; DIFFERENT SIZES; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; GLASS SUBSTRATES; GOLD NANOSHELL; GOLD NANOSHELLS; NANOSHELLS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PLASMON RESONANCES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SINGLE BEAM; TEM; Z-SCAN; Z-SCAN METHOD;

ABSORPTION; GOLD; LASER EXCITATION; LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 70449353770     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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