7.1.6
Interband Transition and Hybridization . . . . . . . . . . . 242
7.1.7
Optics at Metal Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
7.1.8
Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons . . . . . . . . . . 245
7.1.9
Localized SPP in Small Metal Particles. . . . . . . . . . . 246
7.2 Damping of Surface Plasmon Polaritons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
7.2.1
Theory of Radiative and Nonradiative Decay. . . . . . . 249
7.2.2
Experimental Studies of Plasmon Lifetimes . . . . . . . . 253
7.3 Nonlinear Plasmon Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
7.3.1
Second-Order Nonlinear Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
7.3.2
SHG Response at Metal Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
7.3.3
Nonlinear Wavemixing with Surface Plasmons . . . . . 262
7.3.4
Surface-Enhanced Nonlinear Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 264
7.3.5
Nonlinear Light Scattering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
7.3.6
Nonlinear Optical Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
7.4 Femtosecond Time-Domain Measurement of Plasmon
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
7.5 Ultrafast Spatio-Temporal Control with Plasmonic
Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
7.6 Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
8
Controlling Thermal Radiation with Surface Waves . . . . . . . . . . 283
Philippe Ben-Abdallah, François Marquier and Jean-Jacques Greffet
8.1 Surface-Waves Assisted Thermal Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
8.1.1
Introduction to Thermal Emission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
8.1.2
Spatially-Coherent Thermal Emission:
Surface-Phonons Assisted Directional Thermal
Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
8.1.3
Surface-Phonons Assisted Isotropic Thermal
Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
8.1.4
Surface-Plasmons Assisted Thermal Emission . . . . . . 295
8.1.5
Polarization Effects: Coupling of s-Polarized
Propagating Waves and Surface Waves . . . . . . . . . . . 296
8.1.6
Crossed Gratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
8.1.7
Metamaterials with Controlled Emission Spectrum . . . 298
8.1.8
Multilayers and Photonic Crystals for Controlled
Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
8.2 Radiative Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
8.2.1
Heat Flux Exchanged Between Two Planar Media . . . 301
8.2.2
A Mesoscopic Analysis of the Heat Transfer at
the Nanoscale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
8.2.3
Heat Transfer Mediated by Photon Tunneling . . . . . . 308
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