Nonlocal ponderomotive nonlinearity in plasmonics

Pavel Ginzburg; Alex Hayat; Nikolai Berkovitch; Meir Orenstein

doi:10.1364/OL.35.001551

Nonlocal ponderomotive nonlinearity in plasmonics

Pavel Ginzburg^*, Alex Hayat, Nikolai Berkovitch, Meir Orenstein

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Physics

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

We analyze an inherent nonlinearity of surface plasmon polaritons at the interface of Fermi-Dirac metal plasma, stemming from the depletion of electron density in high-intensity regions. The derived optical nonlinear coefficients are comparable with the experimental values for metals. We calculate the dispersion relations for the nonlinear propagation of high-intensity surface plasmon polaritons, predicting a nonlinearity-induced cutoff and vanishing group velocity. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1551-1553
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.001551
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2010

Keywords

SMALL METAL PARTICLES
COLLOIDS
SURFACE-POLARITONS
GOLD
CRYSTALS
RESONANCE
WAVE-GUIDES
PLASMAS

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