Enhanced Surface Photon Drag on Plasmonic Metamaterials: A Fizeau-Doppler Shift Study
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-07-13 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
In this work, we numerically study the Fizeau-Doppler shift of surface modes in a moving plasmonic metamaterial. At proper surface plasmon resonance conditions, a slow group velocity is resulted in the metamaterials, and our simulation indicates a phase shift up to 4 orders of magnitude larger than the normal mode. In addition, both appreciable positive and negative photon drag could be observed. We also found an abrupt transition in the sign of phase shift when silver film reaches a critical thickness. This opens new opportunities in applications such as compact optical gyroscopes and accelerometers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.1712,
title = {Enhanced Surface Photon Drag on Plasmonic Metamaterials: A Fizeau-Doppler Shift Study},
author = {Leilei Yin and Nicholas X. Fang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1712},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
submitted to Applied Physics Letters