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Plasmon-Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation: from Individual Antennas to Extended Arrays

Plasmonics volume 12, pages 1595–1600 (2017)Cite this article

Abstract

We analyze the emission yield of the second harmonic generation (SHG) from dense ordered arrays of L-shaped Au nanoantennas within a well-defined collection angle and compare it to that of the isolated nanostructures designed with the same geometrical parameters. Thanks to the high antenna surface density, arrays display one order of magnitude higher SHG yield per unit surface with respect to isolated nanoantennas. The difference in the collected nonlinear signals becomes even more pronounced by reducing the collection angle, because of the efficient angular filtering that can be attained in dense arrays around the zero order. Albeit this key-enabling feature allows envisioning application of these platforms to nonlinear sensing, a normalization of the SHG yield to the number of excited antennas in the array reveals a reduced nonlinear emission from each individual antenna element. We explain this potential drawback in terms of resonance broadening, commonly observed in densely packed arrays, and angular filtering of the single antenna emission pattern provided by the array 0th order.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support from the Fondazione Cariplo through the project SHAPES (project number 2013-0736). As the nanofabrication process was carried out through the facilities of the NanoMat platform (www.nanomat.eu), the authors acknowledge the financial supports from the “Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche”, the “Conseil régional Champagne-Ardenne”, the “Fonds Européen de Développement Régional (FEDER) fund”, and the “Conseil général de l’ Aube”. This work was performed in the context of the European COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy and supported by it through a Short-Term Scientific Mission.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Milena Baselli, Lavinia Ghirardini, Giovanni Pellegrini, Emilie Sakat, Paolo Biagioni, Lamberto Duò, Marco Finazzi & Michele Celebrano

  2. Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique, Institut Charles Delaunay, Universite’ de Technologie de Troyes, UMR CNRS 6281, 12 Rue Marie-Curie, CS 42060, 10004, Troyes, Cedex, France

    Anne-Laure Baudrion & Pierre-Michel Adam

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    Luca Carletti, Andrea Locatelli & Costantino De Angelis

  4. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127, Palaiseau, France

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Baselli, M., Baudrion, AL., Ghirardini, L. et al. Plasmon-Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation: from Individual Antennas to Extended Arrays. Plasmonics 12, 1595–1600 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0423-y

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Keywords

  • Second harmonic generation
  • Plasmonics
  • Nanoantenna arrays
  • Beaming