Nonlinear Chemical Imaging Microscopy:  Near-Field Third Harmonic Generation Imaging of Human Red Blood Cells

2000 ◽  
Vol 72 (21) ◽  
pp. 5361-5364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Schaller ◽  
Justin C. Johnson ◽  
Richard J. Saykally
Author(s):  
Jian Wei You ◽  
Jie You ◽  
Martin Weismann ◽  
Nicolae C. Panoiu

Intriguing and unusual physical properties of graphene offer remarkable potential for advanced, photonics-related technological applications, particularly in the area of nonlinear optics at the deep-subwavelength scale. In this study, we use a recently developed numerical method to illustrate an efficient mechanism that can lead to orders of magnitude enhancement of the third-harmonic generation in graphene diffraction gratings. In particular, we demonstrate that by taking advantage of the geometry dependence of the resonance wavelength of localized surface-plasmon polaritons of graphene ribbons and discs one can engineer the spectral response of graphene gratings so that strong plasmonic resonances exist at both the fundamental frequency and third-harmonic (TH). As a result of this double-resonant mechanism for optical near-field enhancement, the intensity of the TH can be increased by more than six orders of magnitude. This article is part of the themed issue ‘New horizons for nanophotonics’.


2017 ◽  
Vol 383 ◽  
pp. 418-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Ning Zhu ◽  
Ting Mei ◽  
Miao He ◽  
Hao Li ◽  
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