Nonlinear pulsed excitation of high-Q optical modes of plasmonic nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17165-17179

  Biris, Claudiu G ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HARMONIC GENERATION; NANOWIRES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CAVITY GEOMETRY; CAVITY MODE; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE; FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAINS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; MULTIPLE SCATTERING METHOD; MULTIPOLES; NANO-CAVITIES; NONLINEAR POLARIZATIONS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL MODES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; PULSED EXCITATION; QUALITY FACTORS; SECOND HARMONICS; SINGLE NANOWIRES;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77955602969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017165     Document Type: Article

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