Mapping Nanoscale Absorption of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using Plasma Explosion Imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8810-8818

  Hickstein, Daniel D ^a   Dollar, Franklin ^a   Ellis, Jennifer L ^a   Schnitzenbaumer, Kyle J ^a   Keister, K Ellen ^a   Petrov, George M ^b   Ding, Chengyuan ^a   Palm, Brett B ^a   Gaffney, Jim A ^c   Foord, Mark E ^c   Libby, Stephen B ^c   Dukovic, Gordana ^a   Jimenez, Jose L ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   Murnane, Margaret M ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

femtosecond lasers; finite difference time domain; local field enhancement; photoion spectroscopy; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; LASER PULSES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE MINERALS; PLASMONICS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION MECHANISMS; DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; FEMTOSECOND LASER FIELD; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; LOCAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SURFACE ENHANCEMENT;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 84925356709     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503199v     Document Type: Article

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