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Five orders-of-magnitude enhancement of two-photon absorption for dyes on silver nanoparticle fractal clusters
Wenseleers, Wim,Stellacci, Francesco,Meyer-Friedrichsen, Timo,Mangel, Timo,Bauer, Christina A.,Pond, Stephanie J.K.,Marder, Seth R.,Perry, Joseph W.
, p. 6853 - 6863 (2002)
Strong enhancement of the two-photon absorption of organic molecules near silver nanoparticle fractal clusters has been observed and has been exploited to yield composite materials with very strong two-photon absorption and two-photon-excited fluorescence properties. Measurements on cluster films coated with chromophoric polymer or with thiol-bound chromophores give spatially-averaged enhancements of 1000 and 20000, respectively. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy studies show that the enhancements are spatially inhomogeneous, with peak-enhancement factors of a?¥ 10000 (polymer/cluster) and a?¥ 160000 (thiol chromophore/cluster), and excitation frequency dependent. These results are in accord with theoretical predictions of local-field effects due to strong localization of collective plasmon modes in fractal metal clusters, and demonstrate an approach to ultrasensitive two-photon processes.