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Nonlinear Optical Effects and Selective Photomodification of Colloidal Silver Aggregates

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Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media

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Colloidal silver aggregates of nanoparticles were studied experimentally using optical spectroscopy, electron microscopy, near-field optics, and nonlinear optics. Changes in absorption spectra, local structure, and near-field optical response after the irradiation of fractal colloidal aggregates with a laser pulse (selective photomodification) were studied. The diameters of the selectively photomodified domains decreased as the laser wavelength increased, in accordance with the theory of the optics of fractal clusters. Giant enhancements of nonlinear optical responses were found for aggregated nanocomposites compared with nonaggregated. The enhancements are due to excitation of the collective plasmon modes in the aggregates. The plasmon modes are anisotropic and chiral. Nonlinear effects governed by local and nonlocal responses (degenerate four-wave mixing, nonlinear absorption, refraction and gyrotropy, inverse Faraday effect, and ellipse self-rotation) were studied.

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Drachev, V.P., Perminov, S.V., Rautian, S.G., Safonov, V.P. (2002). Nonlinear Optical Effects and Selective Photomodification of Colloidal Silver Aggregates. In: Shalaev, V.M. (eds) Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44948-5_6

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