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The intention of this paper is to study the physical mechanism underlying the response of gold nanoparticle (AuNP) dimers to a near-infrared off-resonance femtosecond pulse laser in aqueous medium. We show that the strongly localized field enhancement in the gap distance and around nanoparticles significantly reduces the laser fluence threshold to achieve an optical breakdown in comparison with an AuNP monomer. This optical breakdown results from highly localized plasma in surrounding media where the nanoparticles stay intact. Also the impact of the gap distance, field polarization, laser fluence and pulse duration on the energy deposition in plasma is presented. These results can be used to make nanoscale plasmonic devices for variety of absorption-based applications.

Plasma-mediated photothermal effects in ultrafast laser irradiation of gold nanoparticle dimers in water