Exact results on optical bistability with surface plasmons in layered media
- 15 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (8) , 5239-5243
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.5239
Abstract
Optical bistability with surface plasmons in layered structures on a nonlinear substrate is studied using Leung’s exact results for the nonlinear p-polarized surface waves. Explicit results for the bistable behavior of the reflected field are given for two different geometries involving excitation of short-range and long-range surface plasmons. The excitation of long-range plasmons results in a much lower bistability threshold.Keywords
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