A detailed computational study of the wavelength-dependent efficiency of optical second-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanostructures is presented. The computations are based on a discontinuous Galerkin Maxwell solver that utilizes a hydrodynamic material model to calculate the free-electron dynamics in metals without any further approximations. Besides wave-mixing effects, the material model thus contains the full nonlocal characteristics of the electromagnetic response, as well as intensity-dependent phenomena such as the Kerr effect.

We present an approach for the description of fluorescence from optically active materials embedded in layered periodic structures. Based on an exact electromagnetic Green's tensor analysis, we determine the radiative properties of emitters such as the local photonic density of states, Lamb shifts, linewidths, etc. for a finite or infinite sequence of thin alternating plasmonic and dielectric layers. In the effective-medium limit, these systems may exhibit hyperbolic dispersion relations so that the large wave-vector characteristics of all constituents and processes become relevant.