Enhanced second harmonic generation from single micron-sized particles on a substrate

Author

Yang, Nan ; Angerer, W.E. ; Yodh, Arjun G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

23-28 May 1992

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

179

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report experimental observations of second harmonic generation from single micron-sized polystyrene spheres on a substrate. The observations are unusual because the signal magnitude can be enormously enhanced compared to the substrate response. This enhancement depends on particle size and sphere composition. Micron-sized spheres such as these are important in a variety of fields ranging from colloidal science, to optical tweezing and microrheology in cell biology.

Keywords

optical harmonic generation; optical polymers; optical self-focusing; particle size; enhanced second harmonic generation; glass substrate; optical tweezing; particle size; polystyrene spheres; self-focusing role; single micron-sized particles; sphere composition; Atom optics; Atomic measurements; Biomedical optical imaging; Counting circuits; Frequency conversion; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical harmonic generation; Quantum computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-576-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QELS.1999.807492

Filename

807492