All-optical switching in metamaterial with high structural symmetry

Abstract

We argue the possibility of realization of a polarization insensitive all-optical switching in a planar metamaterial composed of a 4-fold periodic array of two concentric metal rings placed on a substrate of nonlinear material. It is demonstrated that a switching may be achieved between essentially different values of transmission near the resonant frequency of the high-quality-factor Fano-shape trapped-mode excitation.

7 pages, 3 figures

References in corpus (2)

• Nonlinear properties of left-handed metamaterials
• Optical bistability involving planar metamaterial with broken structural symmetry

Cited by in corpus (9)

• All-dielectric resonant metasurfaces with a strong toroidal response
• High-quality trapped modes in all-dielectric metamaterials
• Controlling high-Q trapped modes in polarization-insensitive all-dielectric metasurfaces
• All-dielectric metasurfaces with trapped modes: group-theoretical description
• Magnetic dipole ordering in resonant dielectric metasurfaces
• Enhancement of absorption bistability by trapping light planar metamaterial
• Nonlinear interaction of two trapped-mode resonances in a bilayer fish-scale metamaterial
• Electromagnetic wave diffraction by periodic planar metamaterials with nonlinear constituents
• Two-oscillator model of trapped-modes interaction in a nonlinear bilayer fish-scale metamaterial