Analogue of double-$\Lambda$-type atomic medium and vector dromions in a plasmonic metamaterial

Abstract

We consider an array of the meta-atom consisting of two cut-wires and a split-ring resonator interacting with an electromagnetic field with two polarization components. We prove that such metamaterial system can be taken as a classical analogue of an atomic medium with a double- $\Lambda$-type four-level configuration coupled with four laser fields, exhibits an effect of plasmon induced transparency (PIT), and displays a similar behavior of atomic four-wave mixing (FWM). We demonstrate that when nonlinear varactors are mounted onto the gaps of the split-ring resonators the system can acquire giant second- and third-order Kerr nonlinearities via the PIT and a longwave-shortwave interaction. We also demonstrate that the system supports high-dimensional vector plasmonic dromions [i.e. (2+1)-dimensional plasmonic solitons with two polarization components, each of which has a coupling between a longwave and a shortwave], which have very low generation power and are robust during propagation. Our work gives not only a plasmonic analogue of the FWM in coherent atomic systems but also provides the possibility for obtaining new type of nonlinear polaritons in plasmonic metamaterials.

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