Cascaded second-order surface plasmon solitons due to intrinsic metal nonlinearity

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Krasavin, Alexey V ^a   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; FINITE ELEMENT; LINEAR DIELECTRIC; MULTIPOLES; NON-DIFFRACTIVE; NONLOCAL; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-HARMONIC; SOLITON FORMATION; STRONG INTERACTION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; WAVELENGTH PAIR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84873370110     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/013031     Document Type: Article

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