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Maxwell-Hydrodynamic Model for Simulating Nonlinear Terahertz Generation from Plasmonic Metasurfaces

arXiv:1709.05735 · doi:10.1109/JMMCT.2017.2751553

Abstract

The interaction between the electromagnetic field and plasmonic nanostructures leads to both the strong linear response and inherent nonlinear behavior. In this paper, a time-domain hydrodynamic model for describing the motion of electrons in plasmonic nanostructures is presented, in which both surface and bulk contributions of nonlinearity are considered. A coupled Maxwell-hydrodynamic system capturing full-wave physics and free electron dynamics is numerically solved with the parallel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The validation of the proposed method is presented to simulate linear and nonlinear responses from a plasmonic metasurface. The linear response is compared with the Drude dispersion model and the nonlinear terahertz emission from a difference-frequency generation process is validated with theoretical analyses. The proposed scheme is fundamentally important to design nonlinear plasmonic nanodevices, especially for efficient and broadband THz emitters.

arXiv comment8 pages, 7 figures, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 2017

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