Interwave interaction in an array of carbon nanotubes with a dynamic plasmon lattice

Abstract

It is shown that when counterpropagating laser beams are incident on an array of parallel single-walled carbon nanotubes, strong interaction of waves is possible, accompanied by the amplification of one of the waves at the expense of another, more intense pump wave. The interaction is most efficient when the condition of phase matching of the incident waves and the slow plasmon polariton wave formed because of the laser-induced metallisation of nanotubes is satisfied. The dependence of the the signal wave gain on the geometric parameters of the array and the wave characteristics of the incident waves is studied numerically. A range of phase detuning values is found, in which the gain changes weakly near its maximum value.