Double blind ultrafast pulse characterization by mixed frequency generation in a gold antenna
File(s)
Author(s)
Gennaro, SD
Li, Y
Maier, SA
Oulton, RF
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Ultrafast pulse characterization requires the analysis of correlation functions generated by frequency mixing of optical pulses in a nonlinear medium. In this work, we use a gold optical nanoantenna to generate simultaneously Four Wave Mixing and Sum Frequency Generation across the tuning range of a Ti: Sapphire and Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) system. Since metal nanoparticles create remarkably strong nonlinear responses for their size without the need for phase matching, this allows us to simultaneously characterize the unknown OPO pulse and its pump pulse using a single spectrogram. The nonlinear mixing is efficient enough to retrieve pulses with energies in the picojoule range.
Date Issued
2018-08-15
Date Acceptance
2018-06-01
Citation
ACS Photonics, 2018, 5 (8), pp.3166-3171
ISSN
2330-4022
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
3166
End Page
3171
Journal / Book Title
ACS Photonics
Volume
5
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
© 2018 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Photonics, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00387
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
The Leverhulme Trust
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/M013812/1
RPG-2016-064
DOCTORAL PRIZE
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Optics
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Physics
plasmonics
nonlinear optics
ultrashort pulse characterization
nanoantennas
sum frequency generation
four wave mixing
INELASTIC LIGHT-SCATTERING
2ND-HARMONIC GENERATION
SINGLE-SHOT
3RD-HARMONIC GENERATION
ULTRASHORT PULSES
OPTICAL PULSES
NANOPARTICLES
PHASE
ENHANCEMENT
METAL
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-06-04