Publications Ultrafast Nano-Optics

Ultrafast Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics

Reviews and Highlights Quantum Science Molecular and Soft-matter Ultrafast Nano-optics and Nanophotonics Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Nano-Cavity QED with Tunable Nano-Tip Interaction

Molly A. May, David Fialkow, Tong Wu, Kyoung‐Duck Park, Haixu Leng, Jaron A. Kropp, Theodosia Gougousi, Philippe Lalanne, Matthew Pelton, and Markus B. Raschke
Adv. Quantum Technol. 3, 1900087 (2020).
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Purcell-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission of Molecular Vibrations

Bernd Metzger, Eric Muller, Jun Nishida, Benjamin Pollard, Mario Hentschel, and Markus B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153001 (2019).
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Ultrafast coherent nonlinear nanooptics and nanoimaging of graphene

Tao Jiang, Vasily Kravtsov, Mikhail Tokman, Alexey Belyanin & Markus B. Raschke
Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 838-843 (2019).
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Tip-enhanced strong coupling spectroscopy, imaging and control of a single quantum emitter

Kyoung-Duck Park, Molly A. May, Haixu Leng, Jiarong Wang, Jaron A. Kropp, Theodosia Gougousi, Matthew Pelton, Markus B. Raschke
Sci. Adv. 5, eaav5931 (2019).
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Infrared nanospectroscopic imaging in the rotating frame

Samuel C. Johnson, Eric A. Muller, Omar Khatib, Elisa A. Bonnin, Alexander C. Gagnon, and Markus B. Raschke
Optica 6, 424-429 (2019).
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Anisotropic Flow Control and Gate Modulation of Hybrid Phonon-Polaritons

Francisco C. B. Maia, Brian T. O’Callahan, Alisson R. Cadore, Ingrid D. Barcelos, Leonardo C. Campos, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christoph Deneke, Alexey Belyanin, Markus B. Raschke, and Raul
Nano Lett. 19, 708-715 (2019).
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Radiative control of dark excitons at room temperature by nano-optical antenna-tip Purcell effect

Kyoung-Duck Park, Tao Jiang, Genevieve Clark, Xiaodong Xu, and Markus B. Raschke
Nature Nanotechnology 13, 59 (2018).
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Imaging Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Ultrathin Biomimetic and Biological Crystals

Brian T. O’Callahan, Kevin T. Crampton, Irina V. Novikova, Tengyue Jian, Chun-Long Chen, James E. Evans, Markus B. Raschke, Patrick Z. El-Khoury, and A. Scott Lea
J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 24891-24895(2018).
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Photoinduced Tip-Sample Forces for Chemical Nanoimaging and Spectroscopy

Brian T. O’Callahan, Jun Yan, Fabian Menges, Eric A. Muller, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 18, 5499-5505 (2018).
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Nano-imaging and control of molecular vibrations through electromagnetically induced scattering reaching the strong coupling regime

Eric Anton Muller, Benjamin Pollard, Hans A. Bechtel, Ronen Adato, Dordaneh Etezadi, Hatice Altug, and Markus B. Raschke
ACS Photonics 5, 3594-3600 (2018).
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Compressed sensing FTIR nano-spectroscopy and nano-imaging

Bernd Kastner, Franko Schmahling, Andrea Hornemann, Georg Ulrich, Arne Hoehl, Mattias Kruskopf, Klaus Pierz, Markus B. Raschke, Gerd Wabbeler, and Clemens Elster
Optics Express 26, 18115  (2018).
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Enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity driven by surface-plasmon field gradients

Vasily Kravtsov, Sultan AlMutairi, Ronald Ulbricht, A. Ryan Kutayiah, Alexey Belyanin, Markus B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203903 (2018).
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Far Infrared Synchrotron Near-Field Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy

Omar Khatib, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, and G. Lawrence Carr
ACS Photonics 5, 2773 (2018).
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Polarization control with plasmonic antenna-tips: A universal approach for optical nano-crystallography and vector-field imaging

Kyoung-Duck Park and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 18, 2912 (2018).
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Near-Field Enhanced Photochemistry of Single Molecules in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Junction

Hannes Bockmann, Sylwester Gawinkowski, Jacek Waluk, Markus B. Raschke, Martin Wolf, and Takashi Kumagai
Nano Lett. 18, 152 (2017).
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Nanoimaging of Electronic Heterogeneity in Bi2Se3 and Sb2Te3 Nanocrystals

X. W. Lu, O. Khatib, X. T. Du, J. H. Duan, W. Wei, X. L. Liu, H. A. Bechtel, F. D’Apuzzo, M. T. Yan, A. Buyanin, Q. Fu, J. N. Chen, M. Salmeron, J. Zeng, M. B. Raschke, P. Jiang, and X. H. Bao
Adv. Electron. Mater. 4, 1700377 (2017).
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Phase coexistence and electric-field control of toroidal order in oxide superlattices

A. R. Damodaran, J. D. Clarkson, Z. Hong, H. Liu, A. K. Yadav, C. T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, M. R. McCarter, K.-D. Park, V. Kravtsov, …, M. B. Raschke, L.-Q. Chen, D. D. Fong, R. Ramesh, and L. W. Martin
Nature Mater. 16, 1003 (2017).
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Laser heating of scanning probe tips for thermal near-field spectroscopy and imaging

Brian T. O’Callahan and Markus B. Raschke
APL Photonics 2, 021301 (2016).
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Probing Bilayer Grain Boundaries in Large Area Graphene with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Kyoung-Duck Park, Markus B. Raschke, Joanna M. Atkin, Young Hee Lee, and Mun Seok Jeong
Adv. Mater. 29, 1603601 (2016).
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ProInfrared vibrational nanocrystallography and nanoimaging

Eric A. Muller, Benjamin Pollard, Hans A. Bechtel, Peter van Blerkom, and Markus B. Raschke
Sci. Adv. 2, e1601006 (2016).
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Near-Field Imaging of Cell Membranes in Liquid Enabled by Active Scanning Probe Mechanical Resonance Control

Kyoung-Duck Park, Markus B. Raschke, Min Jung Jang, Jung Hwa Kim, Beom-Hoan O, Se-Geun Park, El-Hang Lee, and Seung Gol Lee
J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 21138 (2016).
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Resonant optical gradient force interaction for nano-imaging and -spectroscopy

Honghua U. Yang and Markus B. Raschke
New J. Phys. 18, 053042 (2016).
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Optical Nanoantenna Input Impedance

Yuancheng Xu, Eric Tucker, Glenn Boreman, Markus B. Raschke, and Brian A. Lail
ACS Photonics 3, 881 (2016).
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Ultrafast Nanoimaging of the Photoinduced Phase Transition Dynamics in VO2

Sven A. Doenges, Omar Khatib, Brian T. O’Callahan, Joanna M. Atkin, Jae Hyung Park, David Cobden, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 16, 3029 (2016).
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Nanofocused Plasmon-Driven Sub-10 fs Electron Point Source

Melanie Muller, Vasily Kravtsov, Alexander Paarmann, Markus B. Raschke, and Ralph Ernstorfer
ACS Photonics 3, 611 (2016).
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Hybrid Tip-Enhanced Nanospectroscopy and Nanoimaging of Monolayer WSe2 with Local Strain Control

Kyoung-DuKyoung-Duck Park, Omar Khatib, Vasily Kravtsov, Genevieve Clark, Xiaodong Xu, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 16, 2621 (2016).
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Plasmonic nanofocused four-wave mixing for femtosecond near-field imaging

Vasily Kravtsov, Ronald Ulbricht, Joanna M Atkin, and Markus B. Raschke
Nature Nanotechnology 11, 459 (2016).
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Variable-Temperature Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Single-Molecule Fluctuations and Dynamics

Kyoung-Duck Park, Eric A. Muller, Vasily Kravtsov, Paul M. Sass, Jens Dreyer, Joanna M. Atkin, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 16, 479 (2016).
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Infrared Vibrational Nano-Spectroscopy by Self-Referenced Interferometry

Benjamin Pollard, Francisco C. B. Maia, Markus B. Raschke, Raul O. Freitas
Nano Lett. 16, 55 (2015).
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Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation

Brian T. O’Callahan, William E. Lewis, Eric A. Muller, Silke Moebius, Jared C. Stanley, and Markus B. Raschke
Optics Express 23, 32063 (2015).
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Nanoscale Probing of Dynamics in Local Molecular Environments

Joanna M. Atkin, Paul M. Sass, Paul E. Teichen, Joel D. Eaves, and Markus B. Raschke
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 4616-4621 (2015).
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Amplitude- and Phase-Resolved Nanospectral Imaging of Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Zhiwen Shi, Hans A. Bechtel, Samuel Berweger, Yinghui Sun, Bo Zeng, Chenhao Jin, Henry Chang, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke and Feng Wang
ACS Photonics 2, 790-796 (2015).
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Inhomogeneity of the ultrafast insulator-to-metal transition dynamics of VO2

Brian T. O’Callahan, Andrew C. Jones, Jae Hyung Park, David H. Cobden, Joanna M. Atkin & Markus B. Raschke
Nat. Commun. 6, 6849 (2015).
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Accessing the Optical Magnetic Near-Field through Babinet’s Principle

Honghua U. Yang, Robert L. Olmon, Kseniya S. Deryckx, Xiaoji G. Xu, Hans A. Bechtel, Yuancheng Xu, Brian A. Lail, and Markus B. Raschke
ACS Photonics 1, 894 (2014)
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Control of Plasmon Emission and Dynamics at the Transition from Classical to Quantum Coupling

Vasily Kravtsov, Samuel Berweger, Joanna M. Atkin, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 14, 5270 (2014)
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Spectral frustration and spatial coherence in thermal near-field spectroscopy

Brian T. O’Callahan, William E. Lewis, Andrew C. Jones, and Markus B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. B 89, 245446 (2014)
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Ultrabroadband Infrared Nanospectroscopic Imaging

Hans A. Bechtel, Eric A. Muller, Robert L. Olmon, Michael C. Martin, and Markus B. Raschke
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 7191 (2014)
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Ultrafast and Nonlinear Plasmon Dynamics

Markus B. Raschke, Samuel Berweger and Joanna M. Atkin
Plasmonics: Theory and Applications (Springer 2014)
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The thermal near-field: Coherence, spectroscopy, heat-transfer, and optical forces

Andrew C. Jones, Brian T. O’Callahan, Honghua U. Yang, Markus B. Raschke
Progress in Surface Science 88, 349 (2013)
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Near-field mapping of dipole nano-antenna-coupled bolometers

Eric Tucker, Jeffrey D’ Archangel, Markus Raschke, Edgar Briones, Francisco Javier Gonzalez, Glenn Boreman
Journal of Applied Physics, 114, 033109 (2013)
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High-harmonic generation with plasmonics: feasible or unphysical?

Markus B. Raschke
Annalen der Physik 525, A40 (2013)
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Group delay and dispersion in adiabatic plasmonic nanofocusing

Vasily Kravtsov, Joanna M. Atkin, and Markus B. Raschke
Optics Letters 38, 1322 (2013)
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Near-Field Infrared Vibrational Dynamics and Tip-Enhanced Decoherence

Xiaoji G. Xu and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 13, 1588 (2013)
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Antenna-load interactions at optical frequencies: impedance matching to quantum systems

Robert L. Olmon and Markus B. Raschke
Nanotechnology 23, 444001 (2012)
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Phase resolved near-field imaging of propagating waves in infrared tapered slot antennas

Louis A. Florence, Edward C. Kinzel, Robert L. Olmon, James C. Ginn, Markus B. Raschke, Glenn D. Boreman
Infrared Phys. Technol. 55, 449 (2012)
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Pushing the Sample-Size Limit of Infrared Vibrational Nanospectroscopy: From Monolayer toward Single Molecule Sensitivity

Xiaoji G. Xu, Mathias Rang, Ian M. Craig, and Markus B. Raschke
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 1836-1841 (2012)
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Light on the Tip of a Needle: Plasmonic Nanofocusing for Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale

Samuel Berweger, Joanna M. Atkin, Robert L. Olmon, and Markus B. Raschke
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 945−952 (2012)
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Thermal Infrared Near-Field Spectroscopy

Andrew C. Jones and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 12, 1475−1481 (2012)
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Femtosecond Nanofocusing with Full Optical Waveform Control

Samuel Berweger, Joanna M. Atkin, Xiaoji G. Xu, Robert L. Olmon, and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 11, 4309  (2011)
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Adiabatic Tip-Plasmon Focusing for Nano-Raman Spectroscopy

Berweger, J. M. Atkin, R. L. Olmon, and M. B. Raschke
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 3427 (2010)
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Near-field measurement of infrared coplanar strip transmission line attenuation and propagation constants

P. M. Krenz, R. L. Olmon, B. A. Lail, M. B. Raschke, G. D. Boreman
Optics Express 18, 21678 (2010)
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Determination of Electric-Field, Magnetic-Field, and Electric-Current Distributions of Infrared Optical Antennas: A Near-Field Optical Vector Network Analyzer

Robert L. Olmon, Matthias Rang, Peter M. Krenz, Brian A. Lail, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Glenn D. Boreman, and Markus B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167403 (2010)
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Few-Femtosecond Plasmon Dephasing of a Single Metallic Nanostructure from Optical Response Function Reconstruction by Interferometric Frequency Resolved Optical Gating

Alexandria Anderson, Kseniya S. Deryckx, Xiaoji G. Xu, Günter Steinmeyer and Markus B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 10, 2519 (2010)
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Near-field localization in plasmonic superfocusing: A nanoemitter on a tip

C.C. Neacsu, S. Berweger, R.L. Olmon, L.V. Saraf, C. Ropers, and M.B. Raschke
Nano Lett.  10, 592 (2010)
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Polar phonon mode selection rules in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

S. Berweger and M. B. Raschke
J. Raman Spectrosc. 40, 1413 (2009)
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Signal limitations in tip-enhanced Raman scattering: the challenge to become a routine analytical technique

S. Berweger and M. B. Raschke
Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 396, 1613 (2009)
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Optical nanocrystallography with tip-enhanced phonon Raman spectroscopy

S. Berweger, C. C. Neacsu, Y. Mao, H. Zhou, S. S. Wong, and M. B. Raschke
Nat. Nanotechnology 4, 496 (2009)
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Mid-IR plasmonics: Near-field imaging of coherent plasmon modes of silver nanowires

A. C. Jones, R. L. Olmon, S. E. Skrabalak, B. J. Wiley, Y. N. Xia, and M. B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 9, 2553 (2009)
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Second-harmonic near-field imaging of ferroelectric domain structure of YMnO3

S. Berweger and M. B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. B 79, 100107(R) (2009)
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Near-field imaging of optical antenna modes in the mid-infrared

R. L. Olmon, P. M. Krenz, A. C. Jones, G. D. Boreman, and M. B. Raschke
Optics Express 16, 20295 (2008)
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Optical near-field mapping of plasmonic nanoprisms

M. Rang, A. C. Jones, F. Zhou, Z.-Y. Li, B. J. Wiley, Y. Xia, and M. B. Raschke
Nano Lett. 8, 3357 (2008)
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Optical antenna properties of scanning probe tips: Plasmonic light scattering, tip-sample coupling, and near-field enhancement

N. Behr and M. B. Raschke
J. Phys. Chem.C 112, 3766 (2008)
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Measuring optical frequencies in the 0-40 THz range with non-synchronized electro-optic sampling

P. Gaal, M. B. Raschke, K. Reimann, and M. Woerner
Nat. Photonics 1, 577 (2007)
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Grating-coupling of surface plasmons onto metallic tips: A nanoconfined light source

C. Ropers, C. C. Neacsu, T. Elsaesser, M. Albrecht, M. B. Raschke, and C. Lienau
Nano Lett. 7, 2784 (2007)
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Scanning-probe Raman spectroscopy with single-molecule sensitivity’ “

C. C. Neacsu, J. Dreyer, N. Behr, and M. B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. B 75, 236402 (2007)
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Scanning probe Raman spectroscopy with single molecule sensitivity

C. C. Neacsu, J. Dreyer, N. Behr, and M. B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. B 73, 193403 (2006)
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Resonant-plasmon field enhancement from asymmetrically illuminated conical metallic-probe tips

R. M. Roth, N.-C. Panoiu, M. M. Adams, R. M. Osgood, Jr., C. C. Neacsu, and M. B. Raschke
Optics Express 14, 2921 (2006)
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Second-harmonic generation from nanoscopic metal tips: Generalized symmetry selection rules for single nanostructures

C. C. Neacsu, G. A. Reider, and M. B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. B 71, 201402 (2005)
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Plasmonic light scattering from nanoscopic metal tips

C. C. Neacsu, G. Steudle, and M. B. Raschke
Appl. Phys. B 71, 201402 (2005)
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Apertureless near-field optical microscopy: tip-sample coupling in elastic light scattering

M. B. Raschke and C. Lienau
Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 5089 (2003)
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