Silencing and enhancement of second-harmonic generation in optical gap antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10498-10508

  Berthelot, Johann ^a,b   Bachelier, Guillaume ^c,d   Song, Mingxia ^a   Rai, Padmnabh ^a   Des Francs, Gérard Colas ^a   Dereux, Alain ^a   Bouhelier, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

COUPLED SYSTEMS; CRITICAL DESIGN; HIGH FIELD; LOCAL FIELDS; NANO-METER-SCALE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL GAP; OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; SECOND-HARMONIC; SECOND-HARMONIC SIGNAL; SIMPLE APPROACH;

ANTENNAS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861168389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010498     Document Type: Article

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