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Femtosecond surface plasmon pulse propagation |
Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 250-252 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.000250
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Abstract
We analyze ultrafast surface plasmon-polariton pulse reshaping effects and nonlinear propagation modes for metal/dielectric plasmon waveguides. It is found that group velocity and loss dispersion effects can substantially modify both pulse duration (broadening/narrowing) and intensity decay (acceleration/retardation) by as much as several tens of percentage points in the short-pulse regime and that metallic nonlinearities alone may support soliton, self-focusing, and self-compressing modes.
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OCIS Codes
(190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(320.5540) Ultrafast optics : Pulse shaping
(320.7120) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast phenomena
ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics
History
Original Manuscript: September 28, 2010
Revised Manuscript: December 6, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: December 14, 2010
Published: January 13, 2011
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Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Citation
Zsolt L. Sámson, Peter Horak, Kevin F. MacDonald, and Nikolay I. Zheludev, "Femtosecond surface plasmon pulse propagation," Opt. Lett. 36, 250-252 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-36-2-250
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