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Gold nanoparticle assemblies present an optical response which is very sensitive to different phenomena of thermal origin. In a recent paper, we have described how the interaction of light with matrix-embedded gold nanoparticles can result in the generation of thermal excitations. Here we show how thermal processes can affect the optical response of a nanoparticle assembly. We then connect both aspects and finally point out their involvement in the nonlinear optical response of nanocomposite media. This allows us to tackle two key issues in the field of third-order nonlinear properties of gold nanoparticles: The influence of the generalized thermal lens in the long laser pulse regime and the hot electron contribution to the gold particle intrinsic third-order susceptibility, including its spectral dispersion and intensity-dependence.
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Yannick Guillet got his PhD in Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6 in 2007, on the ultrafast dynamics of the nonlinear response of gold nanoparticle assemblies. He now develops femtosecond laser experiments as a post-doctoral researcher.
Majid Rashidi-Huyeh is associate professor at University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan (Iran). He achieved his PhD in 2006 about the influence of thermal effects on the optical response of metal-dielectric nanocomposite materials.
Dominique Prot is associate professor of physics at the Université Paris Sorbonne — Paris IV. His research is conducted in the Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6) on electromagnetic properties of nanocomposite materials and is mainly focused on electric field calculation in matrix-embedded metal nanoparticles.
Bruno Palpant is associate professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6. He conducts his research activities in the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris where he is in charge of the group for nonlinear optics and thermal effects in metal nanoparticles. He got his PhD in 1998 from University of Lyon (France) about quantum size effects in matrix-embedded noble metal clusters, before joining Keio University (Japan) for one year. He has been interested in the linear and nonlinear optical response of noble metal nanoparticles and more recently in their link with thermal conduction at small space and time scales.
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Guillet, Y., Rashidi-Huyeh, M., Prota, D. et al. Gold nanoparticle assemblies: interplay between thermal effects and optical response. Gold Bull 41, 341–348 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03214892
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