Transient optical response of a single gold nanoantenna: The role of plasmon detuning

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 521-529

  Zavelani Rossi, Margherita ^a,b   Polli, Dario ^a,b   Kochtcheev, Serguei ^c   Baudrion, Anne Laure ^c   Béal, Jérémie ^c   Kumar, Vikas ^a   Molotokaite, Egle ^a   Marangoni, Marco ^a,b   Longhi, Stefano ^a,b   Cerullo, Giulio ^a,b   Adam, Pierre Michel ^c   Della Valle, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IFN CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

nano optics; nanoantennas; nonlinear optics; plasmonics; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; LATTICE THEORY; NANOANTENNAS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL LATTICES; PLASMONS; PROBES; SUBSTRATES;

FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FEMTOSECOND PUMP PROBES; NANO OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLASMONICS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SEMICLASSICAL THEORIES; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84927732495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5004175     Document Type: Article

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