Remote multi-color excitation using femtosecond propagating surface plasmon polaritons in gold films

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13454-13463

  Wang, Yong ^a   Liu, Xuejun ^a   Whitmore, Desiré ^a   Xing, Wendong ^a   Potma, Eric O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FEMTOSECONDS; FOCUSED LASER; GOLD FILM; HEATING EFFECT; LASER SPOTS; MULTI-COLORS; NONLINEAR EXAMINATION; NONLINEAR EXCITATION; NONLINEAR SIGNALS; PHOTON FLUX; SURFACE FIELD; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON MODES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TARGET SITES;

LASER EXCITATION;

GOLD; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COLOR; GOLD; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959909706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013454     Document Type: Article

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