Enhancement of absorption bistability by trapping light planar metamaterial

Abstract

We propose to achieve a strong bistable response of a thin layer of a saturable absorption medium by involving a planar metamaterial specially designed to bear a high-Q trapped-mode resonance in the infrared region.

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