Nonlinear plasmonics at planar metal surfaces

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1950, 2011, Pages 3497-3509

  Palomba, Stefano ^a   Harutyunyan, Hayk ^a   Renger, Jan ^b   Quidant, Romain ^b   Van Hulst, Niek F ^b   Novotny, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Metamaterials; Nanophotonics; Nonlinear frequency mixing; Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; INCIDENT LASER; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY MIXING; NONLINEAR LASER CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLANAR METAL; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 80053005628     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0100     Document Type: Article

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