• DocumentCode
    690096
  • Title

    Ultrafast interband nonlinear dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons in gold nanowires

  • Author

    Marini, Andrea ; Conforti, M. ; Della Valle, Giuseppe ; Biancalana, Fabio

  • Author_Institution
    Max Planck Inst. for the Sci. of Light, Erlangen, Germany
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We theoretically model the nonlinear dynamics of plasmonic waves in gold nanowires. We find that the thermo-modulational nonlinearity of gold leads to a strong spectral redshift of input pulses in a few microns of propagation.
  • Keywords
    gold; light propagation; nanophotonics; nanowires; nonlinear optics; plasmonics; polaritons; red shift; surface plasmons; thermo-optical effects; Au; gold nanowires; input pulses; light propagation; plasmonic waves; spectral redshift; surface plasmon polaritons; thermo-modulational nonlinearity; ultrafast interband nonlinear dynamics; Gold; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Plasmons; Silicon compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834488