Irradiating intense femtosecond laser pulses on a glass sample containing silver nanoparticles results in permanent sample color changes if the laser wavelength is in the region of the particles’ surface plasmon resonance. In particular, even a single pulse of appropriate intensity can modify the initially isotropic extinction of glass containing spherical particles to a dichroic sample behavior in the irradiated area. This observation is interpreted as ultrafast particle deformation induced by the laser pulse creating nonspherical particles of uniform orientation.
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