Linear and nonlinear optical properties surface plasmon polariton localization in plasmonic crystal metallic nanowires

Abstract

Functionality and spatial concentration of light in periodic and disordered plasmonic crystal metallic nanowires are investigated under Kerr nonlinearity. The results show that nonlinear transverse localization of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) in a periodic and disordered array of nanowires embedded in the Kerr medium changes with incident input wave amplitude (A). We study periodic and diagonal disordered nanowire arrays and study the propagation of SSPs under different inputs by solving nonlinear coupling relations. Finally, off-diagonal disordered nanowire arrays are studied. The results show that localization and effective beamwidth of the SPPs increases with an increase in their input amplitudes. Also, the SPPs become more localized with increase of diagonal (δr) and off-diagonal disorder (δd) into the nanowire arrays. Controlling SSPs' localization in the nanowire array using their input amplitude provides a high functional sub-wavelength device that can be utilized in future applications of nanophotonics functions.