The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Conspectus Metal nanoparticles have been utilized for a vast amount of plasmon enhanced
spectroscopies and energy conversion devices. Their unique optical properties allow them …

Room-temperature detection of molecular vibrations in the mid-infrared (MIR, λ= 3–30 µm)
has numerous applications, including real-time gas sensing, medical imaging and quantum …

This review provides a comprehensive description of nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of
gold nanoparticles, which can be used in biological applications. The main focus is placed …

Coherent coupling between plasmons and transition dipole moments in emitters can lead to
two distinct spectral effects: vacuum Rabi splitting at strong coupling strengths, and induced …

Metallic nanostructures with nanometer gaps support hybrid plasmonic modes with an
extremely small mode volume and strong local field intensity, which constitutes an attractive …

Interactions between a single emitter and cavity provide the archetypical system for
fundamental quantum electrodynamics. Here we show that a single molecule of Atto647 …

Solid-state quantum emitters are in high demand for emerging technologies such as
advanced sensing and quantum information processing. Generally, these emitters are not …

Nanophotonics is an important branch of modern optics dealing with light–matter interaction
at the nanoscale. Nanoparticles can exhibit enhanced light absorption under illumination by …

We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, that the photon emission from gold
nanorods can be viewed as a Purcell effect enhanced radiative recombination of hot …