title: Giant Nonlinearity of an Optically Reconfigurable Plasmonic Metamaterial.
abstract: Metamaterial nanostructures actuated by light give rise to a large optical nonlinearity. Plasmonic metamolecules on a flexible support structure cut from a dielectric membrane of nanoscale thickness are rearranged by optical illumination. This changes the optical properties of the strongly coupled plasmonic structure and therefore results in modulation of light with light.
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Jun-Yu
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Plum
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.|College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China.
authors.forename: Jianfa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.|The Photonics Institute and Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637378, Singapore.
authors.forename: Nikolay I
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Zheludev
keywords: metasurfaces; optical nonlinearity; plasmonic nanostructures; reconfigurable metamaterials