Polarization gating and circularly-polarized high harmonic generation using plasmonic enhancement in metal nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25346-25354

  Husakou, A ^a   Kelkensberg, F ^b   Herrmann, J ^a   Vrakking, M J J ^a,b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; HOT ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; LEWENSTEIN MODEL; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; POLARIZATION GATING; SINGLE ATTOSECOND PULSE; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY;

POLARIZATION;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82955226278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025346     Document Type: Article

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