Propagation and active control of femtosecond plasmon pulses

Author

Samson, Z.L. ; MacDonald, K.F. ; Horak, P. ; Stockman, M.I. ; Zheludev, N.I.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The authors report on the ultrafast modulation of propagating fs SPP signal via direct optical excitation of the metal component of an aluminium/silica waveguide and investigate spectral dependence of the effect and its kinetics. The authors also analyse numerically the nonlinear SPP pulse propagation regimes, including self-focusing, pulse compression and solitons, supported by the nonlinearity of the metal component of the waveguide.

Keywords

aluminium; high-speed optical techniques; optical pulse compression; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; silicon compounds; Al-SiO₂; aluminium/silica waveguide; direct optical excitation; femtosecond plasmon pulses; metal component; nonlinear SPP pulse propagation; pulse compression; self-focusing; solitons; ultrafast modulation; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194731

Filename

5194731