Giant Nonlinearity of an Optically Reconfigurable Plasmonic Metamaterial.

Ou, Jun-Yu; Plum, Eric; Zhang, Jianfa; Zheludev, Nikolay I · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Metamaterial nanostructures actuated by light give rise to a large optical nonlinearity. Plasmonic metamolecules on a flexible support structure cut from a dielectric membrane of nanoscale thickness are rearranged by optical illumination. This changes the optical properties of the strongly coupled plasmonic structure and therefore results in modulation of light with light.