Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics of the Optical Nonlinearity in Nanometric Gold Particles
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Measurements of the resonantly enhanced, third-order nonlinear optical properties of gold nanostructures exhibiting reduced charge-carrier mobility in three dimensions were performed with a number of ultrafast nonlinear optical techniques. The size of the particles investigated was varied between 5 and 40 nm. The magnitude of the nonlinear susceptibility is of the order of 5·10−16 m2V−2 at resonance and an order of magnitude lower off-resonance. The response time of the nonlinearity is found to be extremely fast and could not be resolved in the experiments undertaken here. The only statement that can be made in this regard is that the phase relaxation time is of the order of or less than 20 fs while the energy relaxation time is of the order of or less than 75 fs.
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OpenAlex topics: Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies · Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications · Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
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