
Departmental Papers (ESE)
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-Pérot resonant gratings.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1-27-2012
Date Posted: 28 March 2012
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Argyropoulos, C., Chen, P., D'Aguanno, G., Engheta, N., & Alù, A. (2012). Boosting optical nonlinearities in ε-near-zero plasmonic channels. Physical Review B, 85(4), 045129. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045129
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