Phys. Rev. B 66, 205414 (2002) [5 pages]

Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels

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I. I. Smolyaninov¹, A. V. Zayats², A. Stanishevsky¹, and C. C. Davis¹
¹Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
²Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

Received 26 August 2002; published 27 November 2002

We report observation of photon tunneling gated by light at a different wavelength in an artificially created array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels in a thick gold film. Polarization properties of gated light provide strong proof of the enhanced nonlinear optical mixing in nanometric channels involved in the process. This suggests the possibility of building a class of “gated” photon tunneling devices for massive parallel all-optical signal and image processing.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.205414

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10.1103/PhysRevB.66.205414

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78.67.-n, 42.50.-p, 42.65.-k

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Phys. Rev. B 66, 205414 (2002) [5 pages]

Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels