Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoantennas

  • Barbara Wild
  • Jörg Merlein
  • Tobias Hanke
  • Alfred Leitenstorfer
  • Rudolf Bratschitsch
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Part of the Springer Series in Chemical Physics book series (CHEMICAL, volume 92)

Abstract

We have excited bowtie-shaped metal nanoantennas fabricated via colloidal lithography with ultrashort light pulses. The spectrum emitted by the nanoantennas consists of a broadband continuum overlapped with a narrowband second harmonic signal.

Keywords

Harmonic Signal Nonlinear Optical Response Atomic Force Microscope Topograph Ultrashort Light Pulse Broadband Continuum 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Barbara Wild
    • 1
  • Jörg Merlein
    • 1
  • Tobias Hanke
    • 1
  • Alfred Leitenstorfer
    • 1
  • Rudolf Bratschitsch
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Physics and Center for Applied PhotonicsUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany

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