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Volume 106, Number 6, June 2014
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Article Number | 64001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/106/64001 | |
Published online | 17 June 2014 |
Absorption effects on plasmon polariton-gap solitons in Kerr/metamaterial superlattices
1 Instituto de Física, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA - Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
2 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas - Maceió-AL, 57072-970, Brazil
3 Instituto de Física, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) - Campinas-SP, 13083-859, Brazil
Received: 18 April 2014
Accepted: 22 May 2014
A thorough study of the absorption effects on the plasmon polariton-gap soliton-induced transparency in 1D Kerr/metamaterial superlattices is presented. Results indicate that for frequencies close to the bottom or top edge of the bulk-like longitudinal plasmon-polariton gap, the transmission of a finite Kerr/metamaterial superlattice presents a multistable behavior, switching from very low values to the maximum transparency at particular values of the incident power even in the presence of loss effects. Moreover, calculations suggest the existence of resonant plasmon polariton-gap solitons of various orders depending on the particular value of the incident power. The present results reveal that plasmon polariton-gap soliton-induced resonant solutions lead to the transparency of a stack with nonlinear inclusions, a nonlinear optical analog of the electronic barrier-transmission resonances.
PACS: 41.20.Jb – Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation / 42.70.Gi – Light-sensitive materials / 42.70.Qs – Photonic bandgap materials
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