Title :
Enhanced optical nonlinearity due to surface plasmon excitations in thin metal films
Author :
Phung, Duy Khuong ; Kim, Kihong ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Lim, Hanjo
Author_Institution :
Div. of Energy Syst. Res., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
We study the enhanced optical nonlinearity due to surface plasmon excitations by exactly calculating the reflectance and the lateral shift of p waves incident on metal-nonlinear dielectric multilayer systems using the invariant imbedding method.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; surface plasmons; invariant imbedding method; metal-nonlinear dielectric multilayer systems; optical nonlinearity; surface plasmon excitations; thin metal films; Dielectric substrates; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical films; Optical refraction; Optical surface waves; Optical variables control; Plasmons; Reflectivity; Surface waves; lateral shift; nonlinearity; surface plasmon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292504
