It is highly desirable to flexibly and actively manipulate the dephasing time of a plasmon in many potential applications;however,this remains a challenge.In this work,by using femtosecond time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy,we experimentally demonstrated that the Fano resonance mode in the asymmetric nanorod dimer can greatly extend the dephasing time of a femtosecond plasmon,whereas the non-Fano resonance results in a smaller dephasing time due to the large radiative damping,and flexible manipulation of the dephasing time can be realized by adjusting one of the nanorods in the Fano asymmetric dimer.Interestingly,it was found that plasmon resonance wavelengths both appeared red-shifted as the length of the upper or lower nanorods increased individually,but the dephasing time varied.Furthermore,it also indicated that the dephasing time can be pro-longed with a smaller ascending rate by increasing the length of both the nanorods simultaneously while keeping the dimer asymmetry.Meanwhile,the roles of radiative and nonradiative damping in dephasing time are unveiled in the process of nanorod length variation.These results are well supported by numerical simulations and calculations.

YANG XU;YULU QIN;PENG LANG;BOYU JI;XIAOWEI SONG;JINGQUAN LIN

School of Science,Changchun University of Science and Technology,Changchun 130022,China;State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter,Department of Physics,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China

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[1]YANG XU;YULU QIN;PENG LANG;BOYU JI;XIAOWEI SONG;JINGQUAN LIN-.Flexible manipulation of plasmon dephasing time via the adjustable Fano asymmetric dimer)[J].光子学研究（英文）,2022(10):2267-2277

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