Enhanced second harmonic generation from coupled asymmetric plasmonic metal nanostructures

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2015-12-01
Yıldız, Bilge Can
Taşgın, Mehmet Emre
Abak, Musa Kurtuluş
Coskun, Sahin
Ünalan, Hüsnü Emrah
Bek, Alpan
We experimentally demonstrate that two coupled metal nanostructures (MNSs), a silver nanowire and bipyramid, can produce similar to 30 times enhanced second harmonic generation compared to the particles alone. We develop a simple theoretical model, presenting the path interference effects in the nonlinear response of coupled MNSs. We show that the reason for such an enhancement can be the occurrence of a Fano resonance due to the coupling of the converter MNS to the long-lived mode of the attached MNS.
JOURNAL OF OPTICS

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B. C. Yıldız, M. E. Taşgın, M. K. Abak, S. Coskun, H. E. Ünalan, and A. Bek, “Enhanced second harmonic generation from coupled asymmetric plasmonic metal nanostructures,” JOURNAL OF OPTICS, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38885.