Cascaded four-wave mixing in tapered plasmonic nanoantenna

I. S. Maksymov*, A. E. Miroshnichenko, Yu S. Kivshar

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    Abstract

    We theoretically study the cascaded four-wave mixing (FWM) in broadband tapered plasmonic nanoantennas. In comparison with nonlinear bulk medium they 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 resonance frequencies involved in 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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)79-81
    Number of pages3
    JournalOptics Letters
    Volume38
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013

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