Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We report first observation of photon tunneling gated by light at a different wavelength in an artificially created array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels in a thick gold film. Polarization properties of gated light provide strong proof of the enhanced nonlinear optical mixing in nanometric channels involved in the process. This suggests the possibility of building a new class of "gated" photon tunneling devices for massive parallel all-optical signal and image processing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207450,
title = {Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels},
author = {I. I. Smolyaninov and A. V. Zayats and A. Stanishevsky and C. C. Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207450},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures