title: Stable spatial plasmon solitons in a dielectric-metal-dielectric geometry with gain and loss.
abstract: Using a combination of numerical and analytical techniques we demonstrate that a metal stripe surrounded by the active and passive dielectrics supports propagation of stable spatial surface-plasmon solitons. Our analytical methods include the multiple scale reduction of the Maxwell's equations to the coupled Ginzburg-Landau system, and the soliton perturbation theory developed in the framework of the latter.
authors: Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Marini
authors: Dmitry V
authors: DV
authors: Skryabin
authors: Boris
authors: B
authors: Malomed
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008027:Light; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008670:Metals