Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles

Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 461-508

  Palpant, Bruno ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

hot electrons; interband transitions; local field enhancement; metal concentration; nanocomposite materials; nanoparticles; Noble metals; nonlinear optical response; optical Kerr effect; optical limiting; saturation of absorption; self focusing; size effects; spectral dispersion; surface plasmon resonance; thermal lensing; third order susceptibility

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EID: 85073198158     PISSN: 25424491     EISSN: 25424483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4850-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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