Second-harmonic generation from coupled plasmon modes in a single dimer of gold nanospheres

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 220-227

  Slablab, A ^a   Le Xuan, L ^a   Zielinski, M ^a   De Wilde, Y ^b   Jacques, V ^a   Chauvat, D ^a   Roch, J F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; COUPLED PLASMON; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL EXCITATION; GOLD NANOSPHERES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; NANOMETER SIZE; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR EMISSIONS; SECOND-HARMONIC SIGNAL;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

GOLD; NANOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DIMERIZATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSPHERES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84855424195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000220     Document Type: Article

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