Exact results on optical bistability with surface plasmons in layered media. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Optical bistability with surface plasmons in layered structures on a nonlinear substrate is studied using Leungs exact results for the nonlinear p-polarized surface waves. Explicit results for the bistable behavior of the reflected field are given for two different geometries involving excitation of short-range and long-range surface plasmons. The excitation of long-range plasmons results in a much lower bistability threshold. 1986 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev B Condens Matter

author list (cited authors)

  • Agarwal, G. S., & Gupta, S. D.

citation count

  • 34

complete list of authors

  • Agarwal, GS||Gupta, SD

publication date

  • October 1986