Enhanced nonlinear response from metal surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1777-1785

  Renger, Jan ^a   Quidant, Romain ^a,c   Novotny, Lukas ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOUR WAVE MIXING;

METAL SURFACES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; STRONG NONLINEARITY; THIN DIELECTRIC LAYER; THIN METAL FILMS;

METALS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79851477074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001777     Document Type: Article

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