Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels

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18 July 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0207450

Abstract

We report first observation of photon tunneling gated by light at a different wavelength in an artificially created array of nanometer scale cylindrical channels in a thick gold film. Polarization properties of gated light provide strong proof of the enhanced nonlinear optical mixing in nanometric channels involved in the process. This suggests the possibility of building a new class of "gated" photon tunneling devices for massive parallel all-optical signal and image processing.

Keywords

CYLINDRICAL CHANNELS
ARRAY OF NANOMETER
SCALE CYLINDRICAL
NONLINEAR OPTICAL
IMAGE PROCESSING
PHOTON TUNNELING
NANOMETER SCALE
TUNNELING
GOLD

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Version 1, 2002-07-18, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review B, 66 (20), 205414.

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