Free electron nonlinearities in heavily doped semiconductors plasmonics

F De Luca, M Ortolani, C Ciracì - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Heavily doped semiconductors have emerged as tunable low-loss plasmonic materials at
midinfrared frequencies. In this article we investigate nonlinear optical phenomena …

A DGTD method for the numerical modeling of the interaction of light with nanometer scale metallic structures taking into account non-local dispersion effects

N Schmitt, C Scheid, S Lanteri, A Moreau… - Journal of Computational …, 2016 - Elsevier
The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures is increasingly attracting interest
because of numerous potential applications. Sub-wavelength metallic structures, when …

Impact of surface charge depletion on the free electron nonlinear response of heavily doped semiconductors

F De Luca, C Ciracì - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We propose surface modulation of the equilibrium charge density as a technique to control
and enhance, via an external static potential, the free electron nonlinear response of heavily …

Spatial dispersion in two-dimensional plasmonic crystals: Large blueshifts promoted by diffraction anomalies

C David, J Christensen, NA Mortensen - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We develop a methodology to incorporate nonlocal optical response of the free electron gas
due to quantum-interaction effects in metal components of periodic two-dimensional …

Reshaping plasmonic resonances using epsilon-near-zero materials for enhanced infrared vibrational spectroscopy

R Smaali, T Taliercio, A Moreau, E Centeno - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for a
label-free identification of molecular species. The low infrared absorption cross sections of …

Extraordinary optical transmission through nonlocal holey metal films

C David, J Christensen - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate nonlocal electrodynamics based on the generalized hydrodynamic approach
including electron diffusion in holey gold films, showing extraordinary optical transmission …

Plasmonic enhancement of spatial dispersion effects in prism coupler experiments

A Pitelet, E Mallet, R Ajib, C Lemaître, E Centeno… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent experiments with film-coupled nanoparticles suggest that the impact of spatial
dispersion is enhanced in plasmonic structures where high wave-vector guided modes are …

Nano-slit assisted high-Q photonic resonant perfect absorbers

X Liu, G Fu, G Liu, J Wang, Q Yi, H Yang, W Tan… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a new kind of resonant absorber via introducing the nano-slit
into a photonic film. The combination of the nano-slit cavity and the photonic waveguide …

Influence of spatial dispersion on surface plasmons, nanoparticles, and grating couplers

A Pitelet, N Schmitt, D Loukrezis, C Scheid… - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Recent experiments have shown that spatial dispersion may have a conspicuous impact on
the response of plasmonic structures. This suggests that in some cases, the Drude model …

Nonlocality-broaden optical bistability in a nonlinear plasmonic core–shell cylinder

Y Huang, YM Wu, L Gao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
With the self-consistent mean-field method in the framework of full-wave nonlocal scattering
theory, we theoretically investigate the optical bistability in a nonlocal metallic nanocylinder …