Abstract
We report on an order of magnitude enhanced nonlinear response of vanadium dioxide thin film patterned with nanoresonators - nano slot antennas fabricated on the gold film. Transmission of terahertz radiation, little affected by an optical pumping for the case of bulk thin film, can now be completely switched-off: ΔT/T≈-0.9999 by the same optical pumping power. This unprecedentedly large optical pump-terahertz probe nonlinearity originates from the insulator-to-metal phase transition drastically reducing the antenna cross sections of the nanoresonators. Our scheme enables nanoscale-thin film technology to be used for all-optical switching of long wavelength light.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 16452-16459 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 16 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |