Tailoring spatiotemporal light confinement in single plasmonic nanoantennas

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 992-996

  Hanke, Tobias ^a   Cesar, Julijan ^a   Knittel, Vanessa ^a   Trügler, Andreas ^b   Hohenester, Ulrich ^b   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a   Bratschitsch, Rudolf ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

frequency resolved optical gating; nanoantennas; nonlinear optics; Plasmonics; third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GEOMETRY; BOW TIE; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; MICROSCOPIC PROCESS; MODE PATTERNS; NANO-DEVICES; NANOANTENNAS; NEAR INFRARED; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PLASMON RESPONSE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; RADIATIVE DAMPING; SINGLE PARAMETER; SPATIAL REGIONS; THIRD HARMONIC; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRA-FAST;

ANTENNAS; DAMPING; LIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

PLASMONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84856950305     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2041047     Document Type: Article

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