Extreme nonlinear optical enhancement in chalcogenide glass fibers with deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires

Opt Lett. 2011 Jul 1;36(13):2527-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002527.

Abstract

A nanostructured chalcogenide-metal optical fiber is proposed. This hybrid nanofiber is embedded with a periodic array of triangular-shaped deep-subwavelength metallic nanowires set up in a bowtie configuration. Our simulations show that the proposed nanostructured fiber supports a guided plasmonic mode enabling both subwavelength field confinement and extreme nonlinear light-matter interactions, much larger than a bare chalcogenide nanowire of comparable diameter. This is all achieved with less than 3% by volume of metal content.