Nature Communications (May 2016)

Nonlocality-driven supercontinuum white light generation in plasmonic nanostructures

  • A. V. Krasavin,
  • P. Ginzburg,
  • G. A. Wurtz,
  • A. V. Zayats

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11497
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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A theoretical description of the nonlinear response of metals is complicated due to their complex electron behavior. Here, Krasavin et al. use a hydrodynamic model coupled with Maxwell's equations and demonstrate higher harmonics and supercontinuum generation from metal Archimedean spiral shapes