Optical forces in plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials
Optical forces in plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials
We demonstrate that nanoscale deformation of reconfigurable metamaterials with light leads to giant optical nonlinearities in plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials. While effective optical nonlinearities already many orders of magnitude greater than in natural media are experimentally observed in plasmonic nanomechanical structures, modelling suggests that the underlying optical forces can be even larger within dielectric metamaterials, promising phenomena such as optomechanical bistability and strongly directionally asymmetric transmission.
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Plum, E.
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Ou, J.Y.
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Karvounis, Artemios
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Wu, W.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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August 2015
Plum, E.
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Ou, J.Y.
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Karvounis, Artemios
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Wu, W.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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Plum, E., Ou, J.Y., Karvounis, Artemios, Wu, W., MacDonald, K.F. and Zheludev, N.I.
(2015)
Optical forces in plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials.
META 2015, New York.
04 - 07 Aug 2015.
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Abstract
We demonstrate that nanoscale deformation of reconfigurable metamaterials with light leads to giant optical nonlinearities in plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials. While effective optical nonlinearities already many orders of magnitude greater than in natural media are experimentally observed in plasmonic nanomechanical structures, modelling suggests that the underlying optical forces can be even larger within dielectric metamaterials, promising phenomena such as optomechanical bistability and strongly directionally asymmetric transmission.
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Published date: August 2015
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META 2015, New York, 2015-08-04 - 2015-08-07
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/380799
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