Enhancing four-wave-mixing processes by nanowire arrays coupled to a gold film

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11005-11013

  Poutrina, Ekaterina ^a   Ciracì, Cristian ^a   Gauthier, Daniel J ^b   Smith, David R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLIC FILMS; NANOWIRES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EXCITATION ANGLES; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; GOLD FILM; GOLD NANOWIRE; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SURFACE PLASMONS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861171497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011005     Document Type: Article

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