Few-cycle Surface Plasmon Polariton Generation by Rotating Wavefront Pulses
Optics
2017-11-09 v1 Applied Physics
Abstract
A concept for the efficient generation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with a duration of very few cycles is presented. The scheme is based on grating coupling and laser pulses with wavefront rotation (WFR), so that the resonance condition for SPP excitation is satisfied only for a time window shorter than the driving pulse. The feasibility and robustness of the technique is investigated by means of simulations with realistic parameters. In optimal conditions, we find that a ~fs pulse with ~nm wavelength can excite a ~fs SPP ( laser cycles) with a peak field amplitude times the peak value for the laser pulse.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.02899,
title = {Few-cycle Surface Plasmon Polariton Generation by Rotating Wavefront Pulses},
author = {Francesco Pisani and Luca Fedeli and Andrea Macchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02899},
year = {2017}
}