Efficient nonlinear light emission of single gold optical antennas driven by few-cycle near-infrared pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Hanke, T ^a   Krauss, G ^a   Trautlein D ^a   Wild, B ^a   Bratschitsch, R ^a   Leitenstorfer, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND RESPONSE; D-BAND TRANSITION; DEPHASING; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DRIVING FREQUENCIES; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; INTERBAND; MULTIPHOTON RESONANCES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED PULSE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PHOTON ENERGY; RADIATION COUPLING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SUB-CYCLE; THIRD HARMONIC; THIRD-ORDER; VISIBLE LIGHT;

HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 72449185236     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257404     Document Type: Article

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