Optical bistability with film-coupled metasurfaces

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Affiliation of Author(s):Duke University

Journal:Optics Letters

Abstract:Metasurfaces comprising arrays of film-coupled, nanopatch antennas are a promising platform for low-energy, all-optical switches. The large field enhancements that can be achieved in the dielectric spacer region between the nanopatch and the metallic substrate can substantially enhance optical nonlinear processes. Here we consider a dielectric material that exhibits an optical Kerr effect as the spacer layer and numerically calculate the optical bistability of a metasurface using the finite element method (FEM). We expect the proposed method to be highly accurate compared with other numerical

All the Authors:David R. Smith,CHRISTOS ARGYROPOULOS,STÉPHANE LAROUCHE,Alexandre Baron

First Author:Zhiqin Huang

Indexed by:Journal paper

Document Code:40.005638

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2015-11-26

Included Journals:SCI

Publication links:https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-40-23-5638