KURIAKOSE , Tintu

We report the experimental observation of plasmon-soliton waves. The demonstration isperformed in a chalcogenide-based four-layer planar geometry. It reveals a plasmon-enhanced Kerr selffocusingundergone by a TM polarized beam propagating inside the structure.

We present a new experimental technique based on the analysis of beam self-action to measure optical nonlinearity in planar waveguides. This technique is applied to analyze the nonlinear properties of slab chalcogenide waveguides that can develop Kerr induced self-focusing or self-defocusing, depending upon the waveguide structure and...

Controlling low power light beam self-confinement with ultrafast response time opens up opportunities for the development of signal processing in microdevices. The combination of a highly nonlinear medium with the tight confinement of plasmonic waves offers a viable but challenging configuration to reach this goal. In the present work, a beam...

Merging the fields of plasmonics and nonlinear optics authorizes a variety of fascinating and original physical phenomena. In this work, we specifically study the combination of the strong light confinement ability of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) with the beam self-trapping effect in a nonlinear optical Kerr medium. Although this idea of...