Abstract
The interest in the nonlinear (NL) properties of colloids with metallic nanoparticles (NP) increased after demonstration of a giant enhancement of the effective third-order susceptibility, , due to the influence of local field effects [1]. The NL response of such colloids can be described by an effective-medium theory considering that the electric field induced by the laser beam at each NP is different from the average field and thus an enhancement of the optical response occurs.
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