1. A dual-color plasmonic focus for surface-selective four-wave mixing.
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Liu, Xuejun, Wang, Yong, and Potma, Eric O.
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FOUR-wave mixing , *PLASMONS (Physics) , *POLARITONS , *NUCLEAR excitation , *SPECTRUM analysis - Abstract
We describe a dual-color plasmonic lens suitable for focusing two femtosecond surface plasmon polariton wavefronts to a common focal spot. We show that the overlapping evanescent fields, which are confined to (sub-) micrometer dimensions, form a surface-selective excitation volume for four-wave mixing (FWM) experiments. We demonstrate that stable and virtually background-free FWM signals from single nano-objects placed in the plasmonic focus can be generated. The plasmonic focal spot constitutes a precisely controlled excitation source for surface-selective nonlinear spectroscopic measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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