Clarifying the origin of third-harmonic generation from film-coupled nanostripes

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 19565-19574

  Liu, Xiaojun ^a,b   Larouche, Stéphane ^a,b   Bowen, Patrick ^a,b   Smith, David R ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC COMPONENTS; DIELECTRIC SPACERS; FAR FIELD RADIATION PATTERNS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; RADIATION PROPERTIES; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84954136685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.019565     Document Type: Article

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