Title :
Ponderomotive force - the fundamental nonlinearity in plasmonics
Author :
Ginzburg, P. ; Hayat, A. ; Orenstein, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors show the significance of the ponderomotive nonlocal nonlinearity in plasmonics as a source of third-order bulk nonlinearity. It also discusses the second harmonic generation of surface plasmons due to the symmetry breaking of bulk potential by gradient fields.
Keywords :
optical harmonic generation; plasmonics; gradient fields; plasmonic nonlinearity; ponderomotive force; second harmonic generation; surface plasmons; symmetry breaking; third-order bulk nonlinearity; Electrons; Frequency; Optical planar waveguides; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Plasma properties; Plasmons; Surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5191560
