Coherent Control of Femtosecond Energy Localization in Nanosystems
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- 24 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 88 (6) , 067402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.067402
Abstract
We predict and quantitatively evaluate the unique possibility of concentrating the energy of an ultrafast excitation of a nanosystem in a small part of the whole system by means of coherent control (phase modulation of the exciting ultrashort pulse). Such concentration is due to dynamic properties of surface plasmons and leads to local fields enhanced by orders of magnitude. This effect exists for both “engineered” and random nanosystems. We also discuss possible applications.Keywords
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