Collective Effects in Second-Harmonic Generation from Plasmonic Oligomers
| Autor: | Martti Kauranen, Christoph Dreser, Dieter P. Kern, Monika Fleischer, Godofredo Bautista, Xiaorun Zang |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Tampere University, Photonics, Research group: Nonlinear Optics |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Mechanical Engineering 221 Nanotechnology Physics::Optics Second-harmonic generation Bioengineering 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics Polarization (waves) 01 natural sciences Molecular physics Condensed Matter::Materials Science Electric field 0103 physical sciences General Materials Science Nanorod Surface plasmon resonance 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Plasmon Excitation |
| Zdroj: | Nano letters. 18(4) |
| ISSN: | 1530-6992 |
| Popis: | We investigate collective effects in plasmonic oligomers of different symmetries using second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy with cylindrical vector beams (CVBs). The oligomers consist of gold nanorods that have a longitudinal plasmon resonance close to the fundamental wavelength that is used for SHG excitation and whose long axes are arranged locally such that they follow the distribution of the transverse component of the electric field of radially or azimuthally polarized CVBs in the focal plane. We observe that SHG from such rotationally symmetric oligomers is strongly modified by the interplay between the polarization properties of the CVB and interparticle coupling. We find that the oligomers with radially oriented nanorods exhibit small coupling effects. In contrast, we find that the oligomers with azimuthally oriented nanorods exhibit large coupling effects that lead to silencing of SHG from the whole structure. Our experimental results are in very good agreement with numerical calculations based on the boundary element method. The work describes a new route for studying coupling effects in complex arrangements of nano-objects and thereby for tailoring the efficiency of nonlinear optical effects in such structures. publishedVersion |
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