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High harmonics generation by plasmonic field enhancement
Paper 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.
Paper Details
Date Published: 2 September 2009
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII, 73940U (2 September 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.826645
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7394:
Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII
Mark I. Stockman, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII, 73940U (2 September 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.826645
Show Author Affiliations
Seung-Woo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Seungchul Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Seungchul Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
In-Yong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Jonghan Jin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Jonghan Jin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7394:
Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII
Mark I. Stockman, Editor(s)
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