Coherent Fano resonances in a plasmonic nanocluster enhance optical four-wave mixing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9215-9219

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Wen, Fangfang ^a   Zhen, Yu Rong ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Halas, Naomi J ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanostructured materials; Nonlinear optics; Phase matching

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANO RESONANCE; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 84878716538     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220304110     Document Type: Article

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