Plasmonic antennas as design elements for coherent ultrafast nanophotonics

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

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18386-18390

  Brinks, Daan ^a,c,d   Castro Lopez, Marta ^a   Hildner, Richard ^a,d   Van Hulst, Niek F ^a,b,c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

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

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent control; Nanoscopy; Nonlinear optics; Phase shaping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FEMTOSECOND EXCITATION; NANODEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAFAST PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA;

COHERENT CONTROL; NANOSCOPY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE SHAPING;

ENGINEERING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84887470082     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308652110     Document Type: Article

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