• DocumentCode
    1771242
  • Title

    Controlling light with light in a plasmonic nanooptomechanical metamaterial

  • Author

    Jun-Yu Ou ; Plum, Eric ; Jianfa Zhang ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre & Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate metamaterial with a cubic optical nonlinearity that is ten orders of magnitude greater than the reference nonlinearity of CS2. The nonlinearity has optomechanical nature and is underpinned by light-induced electromagnetic near-field interactions.
  • Keywords
    nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical control; optical metamaterials; plasmonics; cubic optical nonlinearity; ight control; light-induced electromagnetic near-field interactions; optomechanical nonlinearity; plasmonic nanooptomechanical metamaterial; Metamaterials; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Optical resonators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989336