Designer photonic dynamics by using non-uniform electron temperature distribution for on-demand all-optical switching times

Luke H. Nicholls; Tomasz Stefaniuk; Mazhar E. Nasir; Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño; Gregory A. Wurtz; Anatoly V. Zayats

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10840-7

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Designer photonic dynamics by using non-uniform electron temperature distribution for on-demand all-optical switching times

Luke H. Nicholls,
Tomasz Stefaniuk,
Mazhar E. Nasir,
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño,
Gregory A. Wurtz,
Anatoly V. Zayats

Affiliations

Luke H. Nicholls: Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London
Tomasz Stefaniuk: Department of Physics, University of Warsaw
Mazhar E. Nasir: Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño: Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London
Gregory A. Wurtz: Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London
Anatoly V. Zayats: Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King’s College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10840-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors engineer a non-uniform electron temperature distribution through nanostructuring and demonstrate a sub-300 fs switching time. This can assist in the design of nanostructures for nonlinear optics, hot carrier extraction and photocatalysis

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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