https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050237
Spatial and angular distributions of third harmonic generation from metal surfaces
Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
Received:
20
May
1998
Revised:
25
August
1998
Accepted:
1
September
1998
Published online: 15 January 1999
Third harmonic generation from planar and spherical metal surfaces is studied theoretically through the standard Green function method, so that the results are not affected by the uncertainty associated with previous simplified models. In general the pattern of the non-linear scattering loosely resembles the pattern of Mie scattering. The strong backward scattering is uniquely related to the non-linear process. These results differ significantly from the predictions of the surface charge model.
PACS: 03.80.+r – General theory of scattering / 42.65.Ky – Harmonic generation, frequency conversion / 61.46.+w – Clusters, nanoparticles, and nanocrystalline materials
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999
