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Cascaded four-wave mixing in tapered plasmonic nanoantenna

Optics 2015-06-11 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study theoretically the cascaded four-wave mixing (FWM) in broadband tapered plasmonic nanoantennas and demonstrate a 300-fold increase in nonlinear frequency conversion detected in the main lobe of the nanoantenna far-field pattern. This is achieved by tuning the elements of the nanoantenna to resonate frequencies involved into the FWM interaction. Our findings have a potentially broad application in ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy, sensing, on-chip optical frequency conversion, nonlinear optical metamaterials and photon sources.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0355,
  title  = {Cascaded four-wave mixing in tapered plasmonic nanoantenna},
  author = {I. S. Maksymov and A. E. Miroshnichenko and Yu. S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0355},
  year   = {2015}
}