title: Ultralow-power and ultrafast all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials at optical communication range.
abstract: Actively all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials paves the way for achieving ultrahigh-speed quantum information processing chips. Unfortunately, up to now, very small experimental progress has been made for all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials in the visible and near-infrared range because of small third-order optical nonlinearity of conventional materials. The achieved operating pump intensity was as high as several GW/cm(2) order. Here, we report an ultralow-power and ultrafast all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials coated on polycrystalline indium-tin oxide layer at the optical communication range. Compared with previous reports, the threshold pump intensity is reduced by four orders of magnitude, while an ultrafast response time of picoseconds order is maintained. This work not only offers a way to constructing photonic materials with large nonlinearity and ultrafast response, but also opens up the possibility for realizing quantum solid chips and ultrafast integrated photonic devices based on metamaterials.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics & Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiaoyong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yulan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qihuang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D055096:Optical Devices; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*
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