Solitary waves in plasmonic Bragg gratings

Abstract

Light propagation in a Bragg periodic structure containing thin films with metallic nanoparticles is studied. Plasmonic resonance frequency, Bragg frequency, and light carrier frequency are assumed to be close. Exact solutions describing solitary gap-waves are found, and a light arrest phenomenon due to nonlinearity of plasmonic oscillations is studied.

9 pages, 6 figures. Submitted in Journal of Applied Physics

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