High-harmonic and single attosecond pulse generation using plasmonic field enhancement in ordered arrays of gold nanoparticles with chirped laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2195-2205

  Yang, Ying Ying ^a   Scrinzi, Armin ^b   Husakou, Anton ^c   Li, Qian Guang ^d   Stebbings, Sarah L ^e   Süßmann, Frederik ^e   Yu, Hai Juan ^a   Kim, Seungchul ^f   Rühl, Eckart ^g   Herrmann, Joachim ^c   Lin, Xue Chun ^a   Kling, Matthias F ^e,h  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d HUBEI ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^f Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; HARMONIC GENERATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; PULSE SHAPING;

CHIRPED LASER PULSE; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH-HARMONIC SPECTRUM; HIGH-PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY; INHERENT EFFECT; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOCAL FIELDS; MEASUREMENTS OF; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; NEAR-FIELD; ORDERED ARRAY; PLASMONIC; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE ATTOSECOND PULSE; TEMPORAL SHAPING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ILLUMINATION; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GOLD; LASERS; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874079557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002195     Document Type: Article

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