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Split Hole Resonator: A Nanoscale UV Light Source
Because of strong light absorption
by metals, it is believed that plasmonic nanostructures cannot be
used for generating intensive radiation harmonics in the ultraviolet
(UV) spectral range. This work presents results of investigation of
nonlinear optical interaction with a single gold nanostructure, the
split-hole resonator (SHR) under the state-of-the-art experimentally
realized conditions. To realize interaction with all spectral components
of a 6 fs laser pulse several multipole plasmon resonances were simultaneously
excited in the SHR nanostructure. To the best of our knowledge, this
paper reports for the first time a strong nonlinear optical interaction
at the frequencies of these resonances that leads to (i) the second
harmonic generation, (ii) the third harmonic generation (THG), and
(iii) the light generation at mixed frequencies. The THG near field
amplitude reaches 0.6% of the fundamental frequency field amplitude,
which enables the creation of UV radiation sources with a record high
intensity. The UV THG may find many important applications including
biomedical ones (such as cancer therapy)