The effect of the Kerr nonlinearity on the transmission through the nanoslit gold film

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-480

  Xie, Su Xia ^a   Li, Hong Jian ^a   Xu, Hai Qing ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a   Fu, Shao Li ^a   Wu, Jin Jun ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Kerr nonlinear effect; Localized waveguide resonance; Nonlinear medium; Slit array; Surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GOLD FILM; GOLD GRATINGS; INCIDENT INTENSITY; KERR NONLINEARITY; LATERAL SHIFTS; NANOSLITS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR KERR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; RESONANCE TRANSMISSION; SLIT ARRAY; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDE RESONANCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77953170775     PISSN: 16747348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-009-0288-6     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Shelby R A, Smith D R, Schultz S. Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction. Science, 2001, 292:77-79
2. Pendry J B, Schurig D, Smith D R. Controlling electromagnetic fields. Science, 2006, 312:1780-1782
3. Olson T Y, Zhang J Z. Structural and optical properties and emerging applications of metal nanomaterials. J Mater Sci Technol, 2008, 24:433-446
4. Hui X D, Liu X J, Gao R, et al. Atomic structures of Zr-based metallic glasses. Sci China Ser G-Phys Mech Astron, 2008, 51:400-413
5. Han Z, Zhang Y S, Lu K. Friction and wear behaviors of nanostructured. J Mater Sci Technol, 2008, 24:483-494
6. Fang X S, Bando Y, Gautam U K, et al. Inorganic semiconductor nanostructures and their field-emission applications. J Mater Chem, 2008, 18:509-522
7. Fang X S, Gautam U K, Bando Y, et al. One-dimensional ZnS-based hetero-, core/shell and hierarchical nanostructures. J Mater Sci Technol, 2008, 24:520-529
8. Fan C Z, Sun L L, Wei Z J, et al. Valence electronic structure of tantalum carbide and nitride. Sci China Ser G-Phys Mech Astron, 2007, 50:737-741
9. Matthias W K, Christian E, Martin W, et al. Second-harmonic generation from magnetic metamaterials. Science, 2006, 313:502-504
10. Zayats A V, Smolyaninov I I, Maradudin A A. Nano-optics of surface plasmon polaritons. Phys Rep, 2005, 408:131-314
11. Bahl M, Panoiu N C, Osgood R M J. Nonlinear optical effects in a two-dimensional photonic crystal containing one-dimensional Kerr defects. Phys Rev E, 2003, 67:056604
12. Boyd R W. Nonlinear Optocs. 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 2003
13. Agranovich V M, Babichenko V S, Chernyak V Y. Nonlinear surface polaritons. Sov Phys JETP Lett, 1980, 32:512-515
14. Stegeman G I, Seaton C T, Ariyasu J, et al. Nonlinear electromagnetic waves guided by a single interface. J Appl Phys, 1985, 58:2453-2459
15. Mihalache D, Stegeman G I, Seaton C T, et al. Exact dispersion relations for transverse magnetic polarized guided waves at a nonlinear interface. Opt Lett, 1987, 12:187-189
16. Boardman A D, Maradudin A A, Stegeman G I, et al. Exact theory of nonlinear p-polarized optical waves. Phys Rev A, 1987, 35:1159-1164
17. Panoiu N C, Osgood R M J. Subwavelength nonlinear plasmonic nanowire. Nano Lett, 2004, 4:2427-2430
18. Porto J A, Moreno L M, Garcia F J. Optical bistability in subwavelength slit apertures containing nonlinear media. Phys Rev B, 2004, 70:081402
19. Shen Y, Wang G P. Optical bistability in metal gap waveguide nanocavities. Opt Exp, 2008, 16:8421-8426
20. Liu Y M, Bartal G, Genov D A, et al. Subwavelength discrete solitons in nonlinear metamaterials. Phys Rev Lett, 2007, 99:153901
21. Scalora M, Dowling J P, Bowden C M, et al. Optical limiting and switching of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear photonic band gap materials. Phys Rev Lett, 1994, 73:1368-1371
22. Forchel A. Switching light with light. Nat Mater, 2003, 2:13-14
23. Soljacic M, Ibanesu M, Johnson S G, et al. Optimal bistable switching in nonlinear photonic crystals. Phys Rev E, 2002, 66:055601 (R)
24. Cummer S A. An analysis of new and existing FDTD methods for isotropic cold plasma and a method for improving their accuracy. IEEE Trans Antennas Propag, 1997, 45:392-400
25. Zhou R L, Chen X S, Wang S W, et al. The surface plasmon resonance of metal-film nanohole arrays. Solid State Commun, 2008, 145:23-28
26. Li H J, Xie S X, Zhou R L, et al. Two different transmission tunnels of light through double-layer gold nanohole arrays. J Phys Condens Matter, 2008, 20:415223
27. Yannick G, Majid R H, Bruno P. Influence of laser pulse characteristics on the hot electron contribution to the third-order nonlinear optical response of gold nanoparticles. Phys Rev B, 2009, 79:045410