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Observation of plasmonically induced transparency by the pump-probe technique

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We have studied the pump-probe spectroscopy of graphene oxide quantum dots. In the presence of gold nanoparticles, strong modifications of pump-probe spectra have been observed. We develop a theoretical model to explain the observed features of the pump-probe spectra. The model takes into account self-consistently the interaction of exciton with surface plasmonic waves excited in the gold nanoparticles, and it provides a qualitative agreement with the observed pump-probe spectra. We have demonstrated that the using gold nanoparticles can increase sensitivity, and potentially to have a broader range of applications to both spectroscopy and microscopy.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Dr. Gary N Lim for helping the experimental part, Dr. Ryoko Shimada for TEM images of rGO and Ag-rGO, and Suman Dhayal, Pooja Singh, Goran Branković, Zorica Branković, Konstantin Dorfman, Norbert Kroo, Marlan Scully, Sanjay Karna, and Francis D’Souza for fruitful discussions, and we also gratefully acknowledge the support for this research from the Welch Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the University of North Texas Global Venture Fund, and from the College of Science Collaborator’s Seed Grant at the University of North Texas,

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    Mojtaba Moazzezi & Yuri Rostovtsev

  2. Department of Physics, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311427, Denton, TX, 76203, USA

    Mojtaba Moazzezi, Yuba Pudel, Meg Mahat, Arup Neogi & Yuri Rostovtsev

  3. IFFS, University of Engineering Science and Technology, Chengdu, China

    Arup Neogi

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Moazzezi, M., Pudel, Y., Mahat, M. et al. Observation of plasmonically induced transparency by the pump-probe technique. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 230, 951–962 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00076-2

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