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A Facile Strategy for All-Optical Controlling Platform by Using Plasmonic Perfect Absorbers

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Dual-band light absorption with the maximal absorptivity up to 99.7% and the minimal spectral bandwidth down to 3 nm is obtained in the plasmonic absorbers consisting of triple-layer plasmonic crystal-nonlinear medium cavity-metal substrate structure, where the intercalated dielectric material is chosen to be a Kerr medium cavity. Efficient all-optical controlling with high spectral intensity change ratios and detecting signal-to-noise is achieved for the system after a slight increase of pumping intensity. These impressive results mainly result from the strong plasmonic resonant field confinement in the middle nonlinear Kerr medium cavity and the near-perfect relative intensity change response by the ultra-sharp anti-reflection spectrum. This work can lay a foundation for advanced all-optical devices by exploiting light perfect absorption behavior and resonant optical field enhancement.

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The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11464019, 11564017, 11664015, and 11304159) and Young Scientist Development Program of Jiangxi Province (Grant 20142BCB23008).

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    Zhengqi Liu, Guolan Fu, Yan-Xing Yang, Pingping Pan, Zhenping Huang & Jian Chen

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Liu, Z., Fu, G., Yang, YX. et al. A Facile Strategy for All-Optical Controlling Platform by Using Plasmonic Perfect Absorbers. Plasmonics 13, 797–801 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-017-0574-5

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