About the nature of increase of the nonlinear optical response of a rough surface

✍ Scribed by A.E. Babayan; N.L. Margaryan; Kh.V. Nerkararyan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 212 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1569-4410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2005.11.004

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that during the propagation of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) in the system of two touching spheres (or cones) when one is a metal and the other is a semiconductor, the conditions of strong localization of the surface wave are realized. At the point of contact, an essential decrease of the wavelength of the SPP is observed and the diffraction processes do not hinder its localization on the nanometric scale. As a result, wave fields increase anomalously. The considered phenomena open a new possibility to propose the experimental way for exploring the gigantic enhancement of the nonlinear optical response from a rough surface.