Saturation and Reverse Saturation of Scattering in a Single Plasmonic Nanoparticle

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-37

  Chu, Shi Wei ^a   Wu, Hsueh Yu ^a   Huang, Yen Ta ^a   Su, Tung Yu ^a   Lee, Hsuan ^a   Yonemaru, Yasuo ^b   Yamanaka, Masahito ^b   Oketani, Ryosuke ^b   Kawata, Satoshi ^b   Shoji, Satoru ^b   Fujita, Katsumasa ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; metallic nanostructure; nonlinearity of scattering; point spread function; resolution; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PLASMONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ENSEMBLE OF NANOPARTICLES; FULL WIDTH OF HALF MAXIMUM; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; REFLECTION CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84908214566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph4000218     Document Type: Article

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