Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 1, 013602(2023)

Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films

Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang*, and Tingyin Ning**
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  • Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
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    Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang, Tingyin Ning. Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(1): 013602

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    Paper Information

    Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

    Received: Jun. 14, 2022

    Accepted: Aug. 10, 2022

    Posted: Aug. 11, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 8, 2022

    The Author Email: Shuyun Wang (wangsy@sdnu.edu.cn), Tingyin Ning (ningtingyin@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202321.013602

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