Plasmonic resonant nonlinearity and synthetic optical properties in gold nanorod suspensions

Huizhong Xu; Pepito Alvaro; Yinxiao Xiang; Trevor S. Kelly; Yu-Xuan Ren; Chensong Zhang; Zhigang Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000028

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