Collective Effects in Second-Harmonic Generation from Plasmonic Oligomers.

ABSTRACT: We investigate collective effects in plasmonic oligomers of different symmetries using second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy with cylindrical vector beams (CVBs). The oligomers consist of gold nanorods that have a longitudinal plasmon resonance close to the fundamental wavelength that is used for SHG excitation and whose long axes are arranged locally such that they follow the distribution of the transverse component of the electric field of radially or azimuthally polarized CVBs in the focal plane. We observe that SHG from such rotationally symmetric oligomers is strongly modified by the interplay between the polarization properties of the CVB and interparticle coupling. We find that the oligomers with radially oriented nanorods exhibit small coupling effects. In contrast, we find t

SUBMITTER: Bautista G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6150722 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature