Quadratic optical nonlinearity of gold nanoparticles

E. Bergmann; A. Bruyère; J. Riporto; E. Benichou; Ch. Jonin; P. F. Brevet

doi:10.1117/12.2190534

28 August 2015 Quadratic optical nonlinearity of gold nanoparticles

E. Bergmann, A. Bruyère, J. Riporto, E. Benichou, Ch. Jonin, P. F. Brevet

Proceedings Volume 9547, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XIII; 95471V (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190534
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We investigate the quadratic nonlinear optical response from metallic gold nanoparticles homogeneously dispersed in a medium or deposited on glass substrates. The nanoparticles are prepared by the wet chemistry method in solution used afterwards. The diameter of the gold nanoparticle is 80 nm. In a homogeneous medium, hyper Rayleigh scattering, effectively incoherent second harmonic generation is used to determine the origin of the response. It is shown that for 80 nm diameter gold nanoparticles, the overall response stems from the deviation of the shape of the nanoparticle from that of a perfect sphere and from retardation effects with a similar weight. The latter retardation effects occur because the diameter of the nanoparticle is no longer vanishing before the wavelength of the incoming electromagnetic field. For deposited nanoparticles, the sample is illuminated through the transparent glass slide and the light at the harmonic frequency, produced through the second harmonic generation phenomenon, is observed in the retro-reflection. From the collected SHG images, it can be unambiguously concluded that the origin of the nonlinearity in 80 nm diameter gold nanoparticles stems from the substrate influence normal to the interface. It can also be concluded that the gold nanoparticles can be used to map out the electromagnetic field in the focal volume.

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E. Bergmann, A. Bruyère, J. Riporto, E. Benichou, Ch. Jonin, and P. F. Brevet "Quadratic optical nonlinearity of gold nanoparticles", Proc. SPIE 9547, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XIII, 95471V (28 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190534

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