The generation of few-cycle laser pulses proved to be a key enabling technology in strong-field physics and ultrafast science. The question naturally arises whether one can induce few-cycle localized plasmon oscillations in optical near-fields. Here, we perform a comparative study of different plasmonic nanoresonators illuminated by few-cycle pulses. We analyze the number of cycles (NOC) of the plasmonic field, the near-field enhancement (NFE) as well as the figure of merit NFE/NOC. The pulse length dependence of these quantities is also investigated. Throughout the inspected pulse-length interval silica-gold and silica-silver core-shell monomers have the potential to preserve the NOC of the incoming pulse, silver bow-ties result in the highest NFE, whereas gold core-shell dimers have the highest NFE/NOC. Based on the analysis, silver bow-ties, gold core-shell and silver nanorod dimers proved to be the most suitable for few-cycle near-field amplification.
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