金属纳米颗粒等离激元共振增强非线性介质谐波的发展现状

随着纳米加工和制备技术的不断发展,金属纳米粒子的等离激元光学特性已得到了广泛的研究与应用。本文基于金属纳米颗粒等离激元共振特性,分析了金属纳米颗粒等离激元共振对介质谐波的增强机制,综述了该增强机制在近几年所取得的最新研究成果及其在生物成像领域的应用。金属纳米颗粒等离激元共振在增强介质非线性特性领域的发展趋势是从简单的金属纳米颗粒向复杂形状纳米颗粒和金属纳米颗粒组装体的发展,这些新型金属纳米颗粒在非线性光学、生物医学上的疾病诊断和治疗有良好的实际应用前景。     

局域表面等离激元

局域表面等离激元使得贵金属纳米颗粒具有丰富的光学性质,其应用涵盖能源、生物医学、安全、信息、超材料等诸多领域。文章简要介绍局域表面等离激元的基本性质、贵金属纳米结构中的局域表面等离激元共振耦合以及具有局域表面等离激元特性的贵金属纳米结构的一些重要应用。     

局域表面等离激元

局域表面等离激元使得贵金属纳米颗粒具有丰富的光学性质,其应用涵盖能源、生物医学、安全、信息、超材料等诸多领域。文章简要介绍局域表面等离激元的基本性质、贵金属纳米结构中的局域表面等离激元共振耦合以及具有局域表面等离激元特性的贵金属纳米结构的一些重要应用。     

人工局域表面等离激元诱导的超透射

利用有限元方法研究了理想导体薄膜中齿状孔阵列在微波频段的超透射现象.齿状结构的引入使得孔阵列的透射谱发生红移,在更深的亚波长区实现全透射.近场分析表明分布在齿状孔上的局域态对红移起了关键作用.研究发现单个齿孔支持人工局域表面等离激元多极子模式,与超透射相关的是偶极子模式.该研究方案可以推广到红外与太赫兹频段.     

表面等离激元与磁表面等离激元

金属微纳结构体系中的表面等离激元以及磁表面等离激元因其独特的光学特性吸引了研究者们的极大兴趣,成为当前的热点研究领域之一.文章对表面等离激元尤其是磁表面等离激元的特点、基本现象、新颖效应及其应用研究前景的最新发展进行了介绍.     

等离激元二次谐波的发展与应用

人们借助等离激元结构,可以在亚波长范围内获得、操控局域放大的光场。它与非线性光学结合,衍生出非线性等离激元。等离激元二次谐波因其卓越特性,近年在理论和应用方面均有较大突破。基于流体动力学模型介绍了等离激元结构二次谐波理论,总结了其发展与应用的报道,包括等离激元共振增强二次谐波效率、基于磁场洛伦兹力的二次谐波效应、对二次谐波辐射方向和频率的调控,以及等离激元二次谐波在结构检测、传感、成像等领域的应用。最后,对等离激元二次谐波研究领域可能的发展方向进行了展望。     

柱状磁光颗粒的局域表面等离激元共振及尺寸效应

柱状磁光颗粒的局域表面等离激元共振为二维磁光光子晶体的手征性边缘模的生成提供了重要的机制. 但目前对此类颗粒的局域表面等离激元共振效应的研究局限于长波长近似下的结果, 且缺乏对发生共振时的远场与近场特征的深入了解. 本文从散射理论出发, 计算并分析了柱状磁光颗粒发生局域表面等离激元共振的条件与特殊的场特征, 并讨论了颗粒尺寸对共振峰的影响. 计算结果解释了实验中观察到的二维磁光光子晶体的共振带隙与在长波长近似下得到的局域表面等离激元共振频率的明显偏移, 并展示了颗粒在较大尺寸下形成的高阶共振峰, 这可能有助于利用共振效应在磁光光子晶体中实现多模的手征边缘态.     

表面等离激元——机理、应用与展望

等离激元光子学(plasmonics)的研究内容是金属纳米结构独特的光学性质及其应用.随着纳米科技的进步,等离激元光子学已经迅速发展成为一门新兴学科,在生物、化学、能源、信息等领域具有重要的应用前景.文章主要介绍表面等离激元(surface plasmons,SPs)的一些基本物理性质,包括局域的表面等离激元(localized surface plas-mon,LSP)和传导的表面等离激元(propagating surface plasmon polariton,SPP),文章还介绍了表面等离激元的几个重要的应用方向,例如生物/化学传感器、表面等离激元激光、光开关器件以及表面等离激元光逻辑运算,等等.     

表面等离激元共振

表面等离激元共振是一种探测金属表面变化的敏感探针，它可以对转移到金（Ａｕ）膜表面的有机单分子层膜进行测量，测量的装置是以衰减全反射为实验基础的。     

表面等离激元的聚焦与波导增强

近年来,表面等离激元学（plasmonics）已经形成一个新的学科热点.电子在金属与介质界面的集体振荡行为形成一种元激发——表面等离激元（surface plasomon polariton,SPP）.由于其具有特殊的耦合与传播性质,与SPP相关的器件设计与应用成为目前纳米光子学领域的国际前沿研究方向.文章介绍了利用微...     

空气中等离子光栅诱导探测光丝三次谐波辐射放大的实验研究

对探测光丝的不同位置与等离子光栅相互作用和探测光丝作用到等离子光栅不同位置引起三次谐波的增强进行了实验研究.研究发现,探测光丝的三次谐波信号强度对于探测光丝不同位置与等离子光栅相互作用和等离子光栅内部钳制的激光强度具有极强的依赖关系.与等离子光栅相互作用,三次谐波信号与等离子光栅基波信号的相位匹配与否是解释探测光丝三次谐波信号强度变化的关键.控制探测光丝以小角度与等离子光栅相互作用是实现探测光丝三次谐波信号有效放大的最佳途径.     

Nonresonant third harmonic generation in thallium vapour

Feasibility of nonresonant third harmonic generation in thallium is investigated. The third order susceptibility, for driving frequencies in the visible region, is calculated and the phase matching with Ar as buffer gas is investigated. Other related quantities like coherence length, minimum pulse lengths required to get phase matching and power input requirements to achieve 50% conversion are also calculated.     

Enhanced third harmonic generation in periodic structures

We consider third harmonic generation in a periodic layered medium with alternate nonlinear media. We show enhanced third harmonic generation when the fundamental frequency matches one of the mode frequencies of the distributed feedback structure. The observed feature is explained in terms of large local field enhancement for the fundamental wave.     

不同波长三倍频DKDP晶体的激光损伤

采用传统降温法,利用高纯原料从氘化程度为80%的溶液生长了四方相磷酸二氘钾(DKDP)晶体,并按Ⅱ类三倍频方式切割晶体。三倍频用DKDP晶体的最大问题在于其抗光伤阈值低于KDP晶体,严重限制了激光输出的能量密度和晶体使用寿命。考察了不同波长下三倍频DKDP晶体的损伤阈值,以及激光退火效应。实验表明,激光退火对于DKDP晶体的损伤阈值有显著的提升作用,基频、倍频、三倍频的提升效果分别达到1.4,1.9,2.7倍,是改善DKDP晶体抗光伤能力的有效途径。     

不同波长三倍频DKDP晶体的激光损伤

采用传统降温法,利用高纯原料从氘化程度为80%的溶液生长了四方相磷酸二氘钾（DKDP）晶体,并按Ⅱ类三倍频方式切割晶体。三倍频用DKDP晶体的最大问题在于其抗光伤阈值低于KDP晶体,严重限制了激光输出的能量密度和晶体使用寿命。考察了不同波长下三倍频DKDP晶体的损伤阈值,以及激光退火效应。实验表明,激光退火对于DKDP晶体的损伤阈值有显著的提升作用,基频、倍频、三倍频的提升效果分别达到1.4,1.9,2.7倍,是改善DKDP晶体抗光伤能力的有效途径。     

Electron beam lithography designed chemical nanosensors based on localized surface plasmon resonance

Efficient nanochemosensors designed by electron beam lithography and based on localized surface plasmon resonance excited on noble metal nanocylinders are presented. Using localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, we report here a high sensitivity corresponding to a density of about 18 × 10⁻²¹ mol of adsorbate per nanocylinders, we present the results obtained with gold and silver nanoparticles. This detection corresponds to less than one monolayer of molecules adsorbate on the nanoparticle. Additionally a subsequent layers deposition of polyelectrolytes is used to detect very thin polymer films. Although the results presented in this work are far from conclusive, the advantages of these nanochemosensors discussed here open the possibilities of further developments in a wide range of chemical and medical applications.     

Surface plasmon enhanced ultra-low threshold second harmonic generation in periodically poled whispering gallery resonator

The surface plasmon enhanced ultra-low threshold second harmonic generation is observed, designed and simulated in whispering gallery resonator made of MgO doped periodically poled LiNbO₃. Here the electric field associated with incident optical radiation of picowatt level is amplified to milliwatt level through surface plasmon resonance in Kretschmann geometry which is formed by a BK₇ prism plane, 29 nm thin gold layer and 20 nm thin GaAs layer. This enhanced electric field then coupled to a whispering gallery resonator, which facilitated the generation of second harmonic for an incident laser radiation of picowatt level. In this proposed configuration with an incident optical power of 94.6 pW, generated second harmonic through whispering gallery resonator is found to be 14.6 mW.     

A new generation optical lithography using a third harmonic pulse generated by micro-ring resonators

We first propose a new system of a third harmonic generation by using a soliton pulse circulating in the integrated micro-ring devices. By using this system, the ultra-short pulse in the attosecond (as) and beyond can be easily generated. In principle, light pulse known as a soliton pulse is input into a design system. It consist the three-stage micro-ring resonators, where the ring radii are within the range between 5 and 35 μm. With the appropriate parameters such as ring radius, coupling ratio and nonlinear refractive index, the attosecond pulse is generated by filtering the chaotic signals within the micro-ring devices. One of the results obtained has shown that the generation of the ultra narrow pulse (spectral width) and sharp tip is achieved. The potential of using such a pulse for picometer (pm)-scale lithography is plausible.     

Imaging theory of nonlinear second harmonic and third harmonic generations in confocal microscopy

ItisreportedrecentlythatnonlinearopticalphenomenonofSHGandTHGhasbeenobservedinmanybiologicaltissues[16].SHGandTHGhavebeenusedtoperformthethree-dimensionalimaginginlivingtissuesandhaveattractedmuchattentionrecently.TherearemanyadvantagesofusingSHGandTHGtoperformthethree-dimensionalimaginginlivingtissues,suchasnoninvasiveandnophotobleaching,inadditiontotheimagingpropertiesofmulti-photonfluorescenceimaging[7—9].Firstly,unlikeinthesingle-andmulti-photonfluorescenceprocesses,onlyvirtualstat…