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Coherently tunable third-order nonlinearity in a nanojunction

Optics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A possibility of tuning the phase of the third-order Kerr-type nonlinear susceptibility in a system consisting of two interacting metal nanospheres and a nonlinearly polarizable molecule is investigated theoretically and numerically. It is shown that by varying the relative inter-sphere separation, it is possible to tune the phase of the effective nonlinear susceptibility \chi^{(3)}(\omega;\omega,\omega,-\omega)inthewholerangefrom0to in the whole range from 0 to 2\pi$.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0507210,
  title  = {Coherently tunable third-order nonlinearity in a nanojunction},
  author = {Vadim A. Markel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0507210},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages 5 figures