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Non-local Ponderomotive Nonlinearity in Plasmonic

Optics 2014-05-21 v1

Abstract

We analyze an inherent nonlinearity of Surface Plasmon Polaritons at the interface of Fermi-Dirac metal plasma, stemming from the depletion of electron density in high-field intensity regions. The derived optical nonlinear coefficients are comparable to the experimental values for metals. We calculate the dispersion relations for the nonlinear propagation of high-intensity Surface Plasmon Polaritons, predicting a nonlinear induced cutoff and vanishing group velocity.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3860,
  title  = {Non-local Ponderomotive Nonlinearity in Plasmonic},
  author = {Pavel Ginzburg and Alex Hayat and Nikolai Berkovitch and Meir Orenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3860},
  year   = {2014}
}