Femtosecond surface plasmon interferometry.
We demonstrate femtosecond plasmonic interferometry with a novel geometry. The plasmonic microinterferometer consists of a tilted slit-groove pair. This arrangement allows for (i) interferometric measurements at a single wavelength with a single microinterferometer and (ii) unambiguous discrimination between changes in real and imaginary parts of the metal dielectric function. The performance is demonstrated by monitoring the sub-picosecond dynamics of hot electrons in gold.
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. temnov@mit.edu
Vasily V
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Temnov
Keith
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Nelson
Gaspar
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Armelles
Alfonso
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Cebollada
Tim
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Thomay
Alfred
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Leitenstorfer
Rudolf
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Bratschitsch