Title :
Controlling light with light in a plasmonic nanooptomechanical metamaterial
Author :
Jun-Yu Ou ; Plum, Eric ; Jianfa Zhang ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre & Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We demonstrate metamaterial with a cubic optical nonlinearity that is ten orders of magnitude greater than the reference nonlinearity of CS2. The nonlinearity has optomechanical nature and is underpinned by light-induced electromagnetic near-field interactions.
Keywords :
nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical control; optical metamaterials; plasmonics; cubic optical nonlinearity; ight control; light-induced electromagnetic near-field interactions; optomechanical nonlinearity; plasmonic nanooptomechanical metamaterial; Metamaterials; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
