Optical bistability involving planar metamaterial with broken structural symmetry
Optics
2012-04-04 v3
Abstract
We report on a bistable light transmission through a planar metamaterial composed of a metal pattern of weakly asymmetric elements placed on a nonlinear substrate. Such structure bears the Fano-like sharp resonance response of a trapped-mode excitation. The feedback required for bistability is provided by the coupling between the strong antiphased trapped-mode-resonance currents excited on the metal elements and the intensity of inner field in the nonlinear substrate.
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@article{arxiv.1009.0111,
title = {Optical bistability involving planar metamaterial with broken structural symmetry},
author = {Vladimir R. Tuz and Sergey L. Prosvirnin and Lyudmila A. Kochetova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0111},
year = {2012}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures