Title :
Functional THG microscopy with plasmon-resonance enhancement in silver nanoparticles
Author :
Chu, Shi-Wei ; Chen, Szu-Yu ; Tsai, Tsung-Han ; Cheng, Cheng-Chi ; Liu, Tzu-Ming ; Sun, Chi-Kuang ; Wu, Shr-Bin ; Biring, Sajal ; Wang, Juen-Kai ; Wang, Yu-Lin
Author_Institution :
Graduate Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Functional third-harmonic-generation (THG) microscopy is proposed/demonstrated by labeling the samples with silver nanoparticles. Over 100-fold THG enhancement can be observed by coinciding the signal frequency with the surface-plasmon-resonance frequency of <50-nm silver nanoparticles.
Keywords :
nanoparticles; optical harmonic generation; optical microscopy; silver; surface plasmon resonance; Ag; THG enhancement; functional THG microscopy; plasmon-resonance enhancement; signal frequency; silver nanoparticle; surface-plasmon-resonance frequency; third-harmonic-generation microscopy; Gold; High-resolution imaging; Labeling; Microscopy; Nanoparticles; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Silver;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
