Selective excitation of bright and dark plasmonic resonances of single gold nanorods

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 15088-15096

  Demichel, O ^a   Petit, M ^a   Colas Des Francs, G ^a   Bouhelier, A ^a   Hertz, E ^a   Billard, F ^a   De Fornel, F ^a   Cluzel, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FOURIER SERIES; GOLD; NANORODS; RESONANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC NEAR FIELDS; EXCITATION BEAMS; FOURIER-SPACE IMAGING; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; NANO-METER SCALE; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS; TWO-PHOTON LUMINESCENCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84902974272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.015088     Document Type: Article

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