Highly efficient avalanche multiphoton luminescence from coupled Au nanowires in the visible region.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We demonstrate highly efficient avalanche multiphoton luminescence (MPL) from ordered-arrayed gold nanowires (NWs) with low time-average excitation intensity, Iexc (5.0-9.1 kW/cm2). The intensity of avalanche MPL, IMPL, is about 10(4) times larger than that of three-photon luminescence, the slope partial differential log IMPL/ partial differential log Iexc of avalanche MPL reaches as high as 18.3, and the corresponding polarization dependence of IMPL has a form of cos50 phip. The emission dynamics of avalanche MPL and three-photon luminescence are also studied comparatively. These observations indicate that the highly efficient avalanche MPL is attributed to the giant enhancement and coupling of longitudinal surface plasmon resonance of ordered-arrayed gold NWs.