Title :
Giant nonlinear optical enhancement in chalcogenide glass fibers with deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires
Author :
Ung, Bora ; Skorobogatiy, Maksim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Phys., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A nanostructured chalcogenide-metal optical fiber is proposed. This hybrid nanofiber enables both very strong field confinement and extreme nonlinear light-matter interactions, much larger than a bare chalcogenide nanowire of comparable diameter.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; glass fibres; nanofibres; nonlinear optics; chalcogenide glass fibers; deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires; extreme nonlinear light-matter interactions; giant nonlinear optical enhancement; hybrid nanofiber; nanostructured chalcogenide-metal optical fiber; strong field confinement; Nanowires; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical variables control; Plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
