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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 28(2019)

Plasmonic resonant nonlinearity and synthetic optical properties in gold nanorod suspensions

Huizhong Xu¹, Pepito Alvaro¹, Yinxiao Xiang¹, Trevor S. Kelly¹, Yu-Xuan Ren¹, Chensong Zhang¹, and Zhigang Chen^1,2、*

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¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA

²TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Aug. 28, 2018

Accepted: Oct. 31, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 21, 2019

The Author Email: Zhigang Chen (zhigang@sfsu.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000028

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