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2 September 2009 High harmonics generation by plasmonic field enhancement
Seung-Woo Kim, Seungchul Kim, In-Yong Park, Jonghan Jin
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Proceedings Volume 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII; 73940U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826645
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2009, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
High harmonic generation is a well-established optical method to produce coherent short-wavelength light in the ultraviolet and soft-X ray range. This nonlinear conversion process requires ultrashort pulse lasers of strong intensity exceeding the threshold of 1013 Wcm-2 to ionize noble gas atoms. Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is popularly used to increase the intensity power of a femtosecond laser produced from an oscillator. However, CPA requires long cavities for multi-staged power amplification, restricting its practical uses due to hardware bulkiness and fragility. Recently, we successfully exploited the phenomenon of localized surface plasmon resonance for high harmonic generation, which enables replacing CPA with a compact metallic nanostructure. Surface plasmon resonance induced in a well-designed nanostructure allows for intensity enhancement of the incident laser field more than 20 dB. For experimental validation, a 2D array of gold bowtie nanostructure was fabricated on a sapphire substrate by the focused-ion-beam process. By injection of argon and xenon gas atoms onto the bowtie nanostructure, high harmonics up to 21st order were produced while the incident laser intensity remains at only 1011 Wcm-2. In conclusion, the approach of exploiting surface plasmons resonance offers an important advantage of hardware compactness in high harmonic generation.
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Seung-Woo Kim, Seungchul Kim, In-Yong Park, and Jonghan Jin "High harmonics generation by plasmonic field enhancement", Proc. SPIE 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII, 73940U (2 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826645
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KEYWORDS
Nanostructures
High harmonic generation
Femtosecond phenomena
Surface plasmons
Nanolithography
Xenon
Plasmonics
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