Title :
Using Fano resonances to influence the ultrafast plasmon damping time for nonlinear plasmonics
Author :
Thyagarajan, K. ; Martin, O.J.F.
Author_Institution :
Nanophotonics & Metrol. Lab. (NAM), Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol. Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
We explore the possibility of strongly influencing the plasmon damping time in nanostructures for efficient second harmonic generation (SHG), using the tunability of the narrow linewidth feature in the scattering cross-section of Fano resonant systems.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; nanostructured materials; optical harmonic generation; plasmonics; surface plasmon resonance; Fano resonance; nanostructures; narrow linewidth feature tunability; nonlinear plasmonics; scattering cross-section; second harmonic generation; ultrafast plasmon damping time;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
