Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε -near-zero plasmonic channels
| dc.contributor.author | Argyropoulos, Christos | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Pai-Yen | |
| dc.contributor.author | D’Aguanno, Giuseppe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Engheta, Nader | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alù, Andrea | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-21T15:33:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-21T15:33:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-01-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The anomalous transmission properties of zero-permittivity ultranarrow channels are used to boost Kerr nonlinearities and achieve switching and bistable response for moderate optical intensities. Strong field enhancement, uniform all along the channel, is a typical feature of ε-near-zero supercoupling and is shown to be particularly suited to enhance nonlinear effects. This is obtained by designing narrow apertures at cutoff in a plasmonic screen. We show that this nonlinear mechanism can significantly outperform nonlinearities in traditional Fabry-Perot resonant gratings. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work has been supported by the ARO STTR project “Dynamically Tunable Metamaterials,” the AFOSR YIP Grant No. FA9550-11-1-0009, the ONR MURI Grant No. N00014-10-1-0942, and the DARPA SBIR project “Nonlinear Plasmonic Devices.” | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045129 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 5 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2lxj3-7wif | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Argyropoulos, Christos; et al.; Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε -near-zero plasmonic channels; Physical Review B 85, 045129 (2012); https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045129 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045129 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18695 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department Collection | |
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| dc.rights | ©2012 American Physical Society | |
| dc.title | Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε -near-zero plasmonic channels | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |