Efficient nonlinear light emission of single gold optical antennas driven by few-cycle near-infrared pulses.

Phys Rev Lett

Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.

Published: December 2009

Individual nanometer-sized plasmonic antennas are excited resonantly with few-cycle laser pulses in the near infrared. Intense third-harmonic emission of visible light prevails for fundamental photon energies below 1.1 eV. Interband luminescence and second harmonic generation occur solely at higher driving frequencies. We attribute these findings to multiphoton resonances with the d-band transitions of gold. The strong third-order signal allows direct measurement of a subcycle plasmon dephasing time of 2 fs, highlighting the efficient radiation coupling and broadband response of the devices.

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