Adiabatic nanofocusing on ultrasmooth single-crystalline gold tapers creates a 10-nm-sized light source with few-cycle time resolution

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6040-6048

  Schmidt, Slawa ^a   Piglosiewicz, Björn ^a   Sadiq, Diyar ^a   Shirdel, Javid ^a   Lee, Jae Sung ^b   Vasa, Parinda ^a   Park, Namkyoo ^b   Kim, Dai Sik ^b   Lienau, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

adiabatic nanofocusing; metallic nanostructures; second harmonic generation; surface plasmon polaritons; ultrafast nano optics

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC NANOFOCUSING; BROAD BANDS; FEW-CYCLE; HIGH REPETITION RATE LASERS; INTERFEROMETRIC AUTOCORRELATION; LIGHT PULSE; LIGHT SPOT; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NANO-FOCUSING; NANOOPTICS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SECOND HARMONICS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPATIAL EXTENT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TIME RESOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GOLD; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHOTOEXCITATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 84864190683     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301121h     Document Type: Article

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