Title :
Sub-wavelength plasmon solitons in 1D arrays of coupled metallic nanowires
Author :
Ye, Fangwei ; Hu, Bambi ; Mihalache, Dumitru ; Panoiu, Nicolae C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Hong Kong Baptist Univ., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
We present the first theoretical study of sub-wavelength plasmon solitons formed in arrays of metallic nanowires. We demonstrate that the plasmonic arrays support unstaggered and staggered solitons, which can be effectively excited from Gaussian beams.
Keywords :
Couplings; Nanowires; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical diffraction; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Physics; Plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
