Enhancement of high harmonic generation by confining electron motion in plasmonic nanostrutures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26261-26274

  Ciappina, M F ^a,c   Aćimović, Srdjan S ^a   Shaaran, T ^a   Biegert, J ^a,b   Quidant, R ^a,b   Lewenstein, M ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

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

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D FINITE-ELEMENT SIMULATION; BOW TIE; DINGER EQUATION; ELECTRON MOTION; ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES; HARMONIC SPECTRUM; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER ELECTRIC FIELD; LONG WAVELENGTH; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SHORT LASER PULSE; SMALL GAPS; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONS;

ELECTRONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870580929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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