Dresden 2011 – scientific programme

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ISS: Intersectional Sessions

ISS 10: Nano Plasmonic (A, HL)

ISS 10.1: Invited Talk

Friday, March 18, 2011, 10:30–11:00, BAR 205

Plasmon Driven Higher Harmonics Generation — In-Yong Park, Seungchul Kim, Joon-Hee Choi, and •Seung-Woo Kim — Ultrafast optics for ultraprecision research group, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Plasmonic resonance enables field enhancement of a low-intensity fs pulse, permitting high harmonic generation without an additional amplifier. This new concept of generating ultrafast higher harmonic pulse was previously demonstrated using Au bow-tie antennas. The resulting intensity enhancement factor reached ~20 dB and successfully produced up to the 21st harmonic. Notwithstanding the high enhancement factor, the 2-dimensional configuration of the bow-tie nanostructure was found sensitive to thermal damages preventing practical usage. To cope with the problem, a 3-dimensional solid nanostructure is newly proposed and tested in this investigation. The newly designed nanostructure takes the shape of an ellipsoidal tapered waveguide fabricated in a cantilever micro-structure. The tapered waveguide functions as a plasmonic device that induces field enhancement by exploiting surface-plasmon polaritons being created as a femtosecond pulse propagates through. In comparison to bow-tie nano-antennas, the use of surface plasmon polaritons offers a much larger volume of enhanced laser field due to counter-propagating surface plasmon modes within the waveguide in response to the incident femtosecond pulse. The intensity of incident NIR pulses is enhanced by a factor of ~350, being strong enough to produce EUV harmonics up to the 43rd order directly from a modest input intensity of 1012 Wcm-2 in interaction with Xe gas.