Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels

I. I. Smolyaninov; A. V. Zayats; A. Stanishevsky; C. C. Davis

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.205414

Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels

I. I. Smolyaninov, A. V. Zayats, A. Stanishevsky, and C. C. Davis

Phys. Rev. B 66, 205414 – Published 27 November 2002

Abstract

We report observation of photon tunneling gated by light at a different wavelength in an artificially created array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels in a thick gold film. Polarization properties of gated light provide strong proof of the enhanced nonlinear optical mixing in nanometric channels involved in the process. This suggests the possibility of building a class of “gated” photon tunneling devices for massive parallel all-optical signal and image processing.

Received 26 August 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.205414

Authors & Affiliations

I. I. Smolyaninov¹, A. V. Zayats², A. Stanishevsky¹, and C. C. Davis¹

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
²Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

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Vol. 66, Iss. 20 — 15 November 2002

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