Fano resonances in disk-ring plasmonic nanostructure: strong interaction between bright dipolar and dark multipolar mode.

This Letter presents a plasmonic nanostructure consisting of a nanodisk and a nanoring. The nanodisk is outside of the nanoring. The quadrupolar, hexapolar, and octupolar resonance modes of the nanoring are excited easily by the bright dipolar mode of nanodisks. This nanostructure shows strong interaction and deep Fano dips. In addition, the resonance frequency, depth, and line width of Fano dips can be tuned by changing the geometrical parameters of the nanodisk and nanoring. These plasmonic nanostructures show both high contrast ratio and high figure of merit. Such characters make them suitable for chemical and biological sensing.

Dipole, quadrupole and octupole plasmon resonance modes in non-concentric nanocrescent/nanodisk structure: local field enhancement in the visible and near infrared regions.

By deviating the nanodisk from the center in the silver nanocrescent/nanodisk structure, we find that the dipole, quadrupole and octupole modes can all induce very high local electric field enhancement (LFE, more than 750) for the coupling of nanocrescent and crescent gap modes, which makes the resonant wavelengths of the non-concentric nanostructures change from the visible to near infrared regions. In addition, the LFE factor of the quadrupole mode is more than 1000, which is suitable for single molecular detection by local surface enhanced spectroscopy.

Periodic nanoripples in the surface and subsurface layers in ZnO irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses.

We present the formation of periodic ripples in ZnO crystal irradiated by a wavelength-tunable femtosecond laser. The results indicate that in the surface thin layer, the periods change from 0.1 lambda to lambda with laser fluences and pulse numbers, and in the subsurface layer the periods are always lambda/2n, where n is the refractive index. The formation processes and mechanisms are also discussed.

Complex periodic micro/nanostructures on 6H-SiC crystal induced by the interference of three femtosecond laser beams.

We reported three types of complex micro/nanostructures on 6H-SiC crystal induced by the interferences of three femtosecond laser beams by arranging three types of laser polarization combinations. The micro/nanostructures are composed of two parts: two-dimensional long-periodic micropatterns determined by the interferential intensity pattern and short-periodic nanopatterns determined by the interferential polarization pattern. Theoretical calculation indicates that the different polarization combinations will lead to a distinct complex interferential polarization pattern and intensity pattern, and they accord well with the experimental results.

Incoherent subharmonic light scattering in isotropic media.

Incoherent subharmonic light scattering in isotropic media is a new kind of nonlinear light scattering, which involves single input photon and multiple output photons of equal frequency. We investigate theoretically the dependence of the subharmonic scattering intensity on the hyperpolarizability of molecules and the incident intensity using nonlinear optics theory similar to that used for Hyper-Rayleigh scattering and degenerate optical parametric oscillators. It is derived that the subharmonic scattering intensities grow exponentially or superexponentially with the hyperpolarizability of molecules and the incident intensity.