Nonlinear Transient Dynamics of Photoexcited Resonant Silicon Nanostructures

ACS Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1546-1551

  Baranov, Denis G ^a   Makarov, Sergey V ^b   Milichko, Valentin A ^b   Kudryashov, Sergey I ^b   Krasnok, Alexander E ^b   Belov, Pavel A ^b  

^a MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

dense electron hole plasma; Huygens source; magnetic Mie resonance; nanophotonics; silicon nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MAGNETOPLASMA; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DENSE ELECTRON-HOLE PLASMAS; HUYGENS; MIE RESONANCE; NONLINEAR TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SILICON NANO STRUCTURES; SILICON NANOPARTICLES;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84988470755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00358     Document Type: Article

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