Resonant Plasmon-Soliton Interaction
Optics
2015-05-13 v2 Other Condensed Matter
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We describe an effective resonant interaction between two localized wave modes of different nature: a plasmon-polariton at a metal surface and a self-focusing beam (spatial soliton) in a non-linear dielectric medium. Propagating in the same direction, they represent an exotic coupled-waveguide system, where the resonant interaction is controlled by the soliton amplitude. This non-linear system manifests hybridized plasmon-soliton eigenmodes, mutual conversion, and non-adiabatic switching, which offer exciting opportunities for manipulation of plasmons via spatial solitons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.2183,
title = {Resonant Plasmon-Soliton Interaction},
author = {K. Y. Bliokh and Y. P. Bliokh and A. Ferrando},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2183},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A