Surface plasmon assisted optical nonlinearities of uniformly oriented metal nano-ellipsoids in glass

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28655-28663

  Mohan, Sabitha ^a   Lange, Jens ^a   Graener, Heinrich ^a,b   Seifert, Gerhard ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GLASS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FEMTOSECONDS; GLASS MATRICES; LIGHT INTERACTION; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NON-SPHERICAL; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NONRESONANT; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; SIGN REVERSAL; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; TRANSVERSE PLASMON RESONANCE; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GLASS; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GLASS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84872023968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028655     Document Type: Article

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