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Measurement of Scattering Nonlinearities from a Single Plasmonic Nanoparticle
Published on: January 3, 2016
Nonlinear scattering by non-Hermitian multilayers with saturation effects
O V Shramkova1, K G Makris2,3, D N Christodoulides4
1Research & Innovation, InterDigital, 975 avenue des Champs Blancs, 35576 Cesson-Sévigné, France.
Abstract:
We theoretically investigate the optical properties of a one-dimensional non-Hermitian dispersive layered system with saturable gain and loss. We solve the nonhomogeneous Helmholtz equation perturbatively by applying the modified transfer matrix method and we obtain closed-form expressions for the reflection or transmission coefficients for TM incident waves. The nonreciprocity of the scattering process can be directly inferred from the analysis of the obtained expressions. It is shown that by tuning the parameters of the layers we can effectively control the impact of nonlinearity on the scattering characteristics of the non-Hermitian layered structure. In particular, we investigate the asymmetric and nonreciprocal characteristics of the reflectance and transmittance of multilayered parity-time (PT)-symmetric slab. We demonstrate that incident electromagnetic wave may effectively tunnel through the PT-symmetric multilayered structures with zero reflection. The effect of nonlinearity to the scattering matrix eigenvalues is systematically examined.
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