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Nanostructured Plasmonic Medium for Terahertz Bandwidth All-Optical Switching

  1. Mengxin Ren1,2,
  2. Baohua Jia3,
  3. Jun-Yu Ou1,
  4. Eric Plum1,*,
  5. Jianfa Zhang1,
  6. Kevin F. MacDonald1,
  7. Andrey E. Nikolaenko1,
  8. Jingjun Xu2,
  9. Min Gu3,
  10. Nikolay I. Zheludev1,*

Article first published online: 24 OCT 2011

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103162

Issue

Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 23, Issue 46, pages 5540–5544, December 8, 2011

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How to Cite

Ren, M., Jia, B., Ou, J.-Y., Plum, E., Zhang, J., MacDonald, K. F., Nikolaenko, A. E., Xu, J., Gu, M. and Zheludev, N. I. (2011), Nanostructured Plasmonic Medium for Terahertz Bandwidth All-Optical Switching. Adv. Mater., 23: 5540–5544. doi: 10.1002/adma.201103162

Author Information

  1. 1

    Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

  2. 2

    Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

  3. 3

    Center for Micro-Photonics and CUDOS, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria 3122, Australia

*Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 2 DEC 2011
  2. Article first published online: 24 OCT 2011
  3. Manuscript Received: 17 AUG 2011

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Keywords:

  • metamaterials;
  • plasmonics;
  • nanophotonics;
  • nonlinear optics
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Periodic nanostructuring can enhance the optical nonlinearity of plasmonic metals by several orders of magnitude. By patterning a gold film, the largest sub-100 femtosecond nonlinearity is achieved, which is suitable for terahertz rate all-optical data processing as well as ultrafast optical limiters and saturable absorbers.

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