title: Surface-mediated enhancement of optical phase conjugation in metal colloids.
abstract: We show that the optical phase-conjugated reflectivity from silver and gold colloids is enhanced by several orders of magnitude. The reflectivity on resonance is comparable with that of CS(2) for metal-particle volume concentration of a few parts in 10(6). We trace this enhancement to the nonlinearities of the electrons in the metal particles and extract the value of their optical Kerr-effect coefficient.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ricard
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roussignol
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Flytzanis