Local-field effects in nanostructured photonic materials

K Dolgaleva, RW Boyd - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2012 - opg.optica.org
It is well known that the optical response of a medium depends on the local field acting on
an individual emitter rather than on the macroscopic average field in the medium. The local …

Plasmonic resonant solitons in metallic nanosuspensions

S Fardad, A Salandrino, M Heinrich, P Zhang… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Robust propagation of self-trapped light over distances exceeding 25 diffraction lengths has
been demonstrated for the first time in plasmonic nanosuspensions. This phenomenon …

Thermal nonlinear refraction properties of Ag2S semiconductor nanocrystals with its application as a low power optical limiter

R Karimzadeh, H Aleali, N Mansour - Optics communications, 2011 - Elsevier
In this work, nonlinear refraction properties of 3nm sized silver sulfide (Ag2S) semiconductor
nanocrystals dispersed in the dimethyl sulfoxide with varying concentrations are reported …

The effect of concentration on the thermo-optical properties of colloidal silver nanoparticles

R Karimzadeh, N Mansour - Optics & Laser Technology, 2010 - Elsevier
The thermo-optical properties of colloidal silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are investigated
under a low power laser irradiation at 532nm. Colloidal AgNPs are synthesized by …

Using femtosecond laser pulses to explore the nonlinear optical properties of Au NP colloids that were synthesized by laser ablation

M Ashour, H G. Faris, H Ahmed, S Mamdouh… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we experimentally investigated the nonlinear optical properties of Au
nanoparticles (Au NPs) that were prepared in pure distilled water using the laser ablation …

Synthesis of colloids based on gold nanoparticles dispersed in castor oil

EC Da Silva, MGA Da Silva, SMP Meneghetti… - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2008 - Springer
New colloidal solutions of gold nanoparticles (AuNP), using castor oil as a nontoxic organic
dispersant agent, were prepared via three different methods. In all three cases …

Nonlinear propagation and quasi self-confinement of light in plasmonic resonant media

V Shvedov, K Cyprych, MY Salazar-Romero… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We study nonlinear propagation of light in colloidal suspension of metallic nanoparticles, in
the regime of particles surface plasmon resonance. We show that the propagation exhibits …

Guiding light with singular beams in nanoplasmonic colloids

A Balbuena Ortega, FE Torres-González… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the nonlinear propagation of light beams with complex phase and intensity
structures, including a Gaussian-embedded vortex, a Bessel vortex, and a Bessel-cosine …

Third-order nonlinear optical response of colloidal gold nanoparticles prepared by sputtering deposition

HPS Castro, H Wender, MARC Alencar… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear optical responses of gold nanoparticles dispersed in castor oil produced by
sputtering deposition were investigated, using the thermally managed Z-scan technique …

Size-dependent nonlinear optical properties and thermal lens in silver nanoparticles

M Mashayekh, D Dorranian - Optik, 2014 - Elsevier
We have investigated the nonlinear response of the silver nanoparticle samples in a low-
power regime of electromagnetic field based on nonlocal thermo-optic models. In this work …