Enhancing the nonlinear optical response using multifrequency gold-nanowire antennas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Harutyunyan, Hayk ^a   Volpe, Giorgio ^b   Quidant, Romain ^b,c   Novotny, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; GAP SIZE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; MINIMAL EFFECTS; MULTI FREQUENCY; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS;

INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861603126     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.217403     Document Type: Article

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