A nanolens-type enhancement in the linear and second harmonic response of a metallic dimer

作者：Pustovit Vitaliy^*; Biswas Sushmita; Vaia Richard; Urbas Augustine

来源：Journal of Optics, 2014, 16(11): 114010.

DOI：10.1088/2040-8978/16/11/114010

• plasmon
• nanolens
• nanoparticle
• Professor Noginov
• Professor Drachev

In this paper we explore the linear and second-order nonlinear response of gold nanoparticle pairs (dimers). Despite that even-order nonlinear processes are forbidden in bulk centrosymmetric media like metals, second order nonlinear response exhibits a high degree of sensitivity for spherical nanoparticles where inversion symmetry is broken at the surface. Recent experiments demonstrate significant dependence of linear response and second-harmonic surface nonlinear response arising from the local fundamental field distribution in a dimer configuration. Our calculations are carried out taking into account high order multipolar interactions between metal nanoparticles, and demonstrate that linear and nonlinear optical responses of the dimer exhibit periodic behavior dependent on the separation distance between nanoparticles. This response increases for dimers with a large difference between particle sizes.

• 出版日期2014-11