Title :
Surface plasmon polariton (SPP) interactions at the interface of a metal and smectic liquid crystal
Author :
Lembrikov, B.I. ; Ben-Ezra, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Holon Inst. of Technol., Holon, Israel
Abstract :
We theoretically investigated the conditions of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagation at the interface of a metal and smectic A liquid crystal (SALC). We evaluated the nonlinear susceptibility of SALC in the presence of SPP. The nonlinear SPP mixing results in the excitation of second sound (SS) surface waves.
Keywords :
nonlinear optical susceptibility; polaritons; second sound; smectic liquid crystals; surface plasmons; SALC interface; SALC nonlinear susceptibility; SPP interaction; SPP propagation; SS surface wave excitation; metal interface; nonlinear SPP mixing; second sound surface wave excitation; smectic A liquid crystal interface; surface plasmon polariton interaction; Integrated optics; Liquid crystals; Metals; Optical mixing; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; plasmonics; smectic liquid crystals; surface plasmon polariton (SPP);
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193602
