Subwavelength modulational instability and plasmon oscillons in nanoparticle arrays
Optics
2012-06-01 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We study modulational instability in nonlinear arrays of subwavelength metallic nanoparticles, and analyze numerically nonlinear scenarios of the instability development. We demonstrate that modulational instability can lead to the formation of regular periodic or quasi-periodic modulations of the polarization. We reveal that such nonlinear nanoparticle arrays can support long-lived standing and moving oscillating nonlinear localized modes - plasmon oscillons.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.6794,
title = {Subwavelength modulational instability and plasmon oscillons in nanoparticle arrays},
author = {Roman E. Noskov and Pavel A. Belov and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6794},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures, published in Physical Review Letters