All-optical active plasmonic devices with memory and power-switching functionalities based on ε-near-zero nonlinear metamaterials

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a   Rizza, Carlo ^b   Palange, Elia ^b  

^a Istituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; EXCITATION PROCESS; FREE SPACE COUPLING; HYSTERESIS BEHAVIOR; INCIDENT OPTICAL WAVES; LOW-INTENSITY; MEMORY DEVICE; NEGATIVE VALUES; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PLASMONIC DEVICES; POWER DIRECTION;

DISPLAY DEVICES; HYSTERESIS; METAMATERIALS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 79960644930     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.043813     Document Type: Article

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