Giant optomechanical spring effect in plasmonic nano- and picocavities probed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Abstract Molecular vibrations couple to visible light only weakly, have small mutual interactions, and hence are often ignored for non-linear optics. Here we show the extreme confinement provided by plasmonic nano- and pico-cavities can sufficiently enhance optomechanical coupling so that intense la...

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Main Authors: Lukas A. Jakob, William M. Deacon, Yuan Zhang, Bart de Nijs, Elena Pavlenko, Shu Hu, Cloudy Carnegie, Tomas Neuman, Ruben Esteban, Javier Aizpurua, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38124-1