Tunable plasmonic-lattice mode sensors with ultrahigh sensitivities and figure-of-merits

2016 ◽  
Vol 119 (24) ◽  
pp. 244503 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Sadeghi ◽  
W. J. Wing ◽  
Q. Campbell
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2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (48) ◽  
pp. 12148-12151 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cartella ◽  
T. F. Nova ◽  
M. Fechner ◽  
R. Merlin ◽  
A. Cavalleri

We use coherent midinfrared optical pulses to resonantly excite large-amplitude oscillations of the Si–C stretching mode in silicon carbide. When probing the sample with a second pulse, we observe parametric optical gain at all wavelengths throughout the reststrahlen band. This effect reflects the amplification of light by phonon-mediated four-wave mixing and, by extension, of optical-phonon fluctuations. Density functional theory calculations clarify aspects of the microscopic mechanism for this phenomenon. The high-frequency dielectric permittivity and the phonon oscillator strength depend quadratically on the lattice coordinate; they oscillate at twice the frequency of the optical field and provide a parametric drive for the lattice mode. Parametric gain in phononic four-wave mixing is a generic mechanism that can be extended to all polar modes of solids, as a means to control the kinetics of phase transitions, to amplify many-body interactions or to control phonon-polariton waves.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajime Okajima ◽  
Hiro-o Hamaguchi ◽  
P. M. Champion ◽  
L. D. Ziegler

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 362-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Verble ◽  
T. J. Wieting
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1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (19) ◽  
pp. 2389-2395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Armstrong ◽  
Douglas F. Cooke

Measurements of the temperature and pressure variation of the 35Cl nuclear spin–lattice relaxation time in Rb2PtCl6 and Cs2PtCl6 are reported. The spin–lattice relaxation time is measured at atmospheric pressure for temperatures from 60 to 500 K and at four temperatures between 290 and 380 K for pressures to 5000 kg cm−2. Previously published data for K2PtCl6 are also included in the discussion. The Van Kranendonk theory of nuclear quadrupolar relaxation forms the basis of the analysis. The rotary lattice mode frequencies are deduced; they are of approximately the same magnitude and increase in the same sequence as the frequencies deduced from nuclear quadrupole resonance frequency measurements and from infrared and Raman data. An analysis of the pressure dependence of the spin–lattice relaxation time data yields order of magnitude pressure coefficients for the rotary mode frequencies. Finally, a thermodynamic analysis, which takes specific volume effects into account by incorporating both the temperature and pressure dependence of the data, is presented.


1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.T.E. Kaper ◽  
J. van der Elsken
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1971 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 813-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Armstrong

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