Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Ag/Au bilayer thin films

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8629-8640

  Hsu, James ^a   Fuentes Hernandez, Canek ^a   Ernst, Alfred R ^a   Hales, Joel M ^b   Perry, Joseph W ^b   Kippelen, Bernard ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERMITTIVITY; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BI-LAYER; BI-LAYER FILMS; BILAYER THIN FILMS; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ELECTRON HEATING; FEMTOSECONDS; LATTICE TEMPERATURES; METAL FILM; METALLIC THIN FILMS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR CHANGES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PLASMONIC; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL DISPERSIONS; TWO TEMPERATURE MODEL; ULTRA-FAST; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE; WHITE-LIGHT CONTINUUM;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84860172592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008629     Document Type: Article

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