Excitation of dark plasmonic cavity modes via nonlinearly induced dipoles: Applications to near-infrared plasmonic sensing

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY MODE; DETECTION LIMITS; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INDUCED DIPOLES; MATERIAL PARAMETER; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL FIELD; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC SENSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX UNITS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND HARMONICS;

HARMONIC GENERATION; NANOWIRES; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79954595648     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/23/235502     Document Type: Article

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