基于表面等离子体效应的光开关研究现状和进展

目前表面等离子体（surface plasmons,SPs）效应在光传感、光存储及生物光子学等领域的应用前景受到了广泛关注,通过计算模拟或实验基于SPs效应的光开关也层出不穷．文章较为系统地介绍了各种基于SPs效应的光开关原理和优缺点,对SPs全光开关做了重点介绍．     

Active modulation of plasmonic signal with a subwavelength metal/nonlinear dielectric material/metal structure

<正>Light propagation through a metal/nonlinear dielectric material/metal(M-NL-M) structure is numerically studied.The design parameters of the M-NL-M structure are found with the waveguide theory so that the structure only supports the symmetric surface plasmon polaritons(SPP(0)) mode and the antisymmetric surface plasmon polaritons(SPP(1)) mode.The coupling between the two modes within the M-NL-M structure is exploited.Through controlling the propagation constants of the two modes with the intensity-dependent dielectric constant of the nonlinear Kerr material,an effective all-optical control of plasmonic signal modulator can be realized with this M-NL-M structure.