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Large enhancement of nonlinear Goos-Hänchen shifts and optical bistability due to surface plasmon excitations

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The Goos-Hänchen shift of p wave beams incident on a metal-nonlinear dielectric bilayer in the Kretschmann configuration is studied theoretically. The reflectance, the phase of the reflection coefficient and the Goos-Hänchen shift are calculated in a numerically precise manner by using the invariant imbedding method. The Goos-Hänchen shift has been found to be able to take both extremely large positive and negative values due to surface plasmon excitations and very strong bistability and unique hysteresis phenomena appear. In addition, several previous results on the intensity dependence of the Goos-Hänchen shift are pointed out to be erroneous.

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    Kihong Kim

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Kim, K. Large enhancement of nonlinear Goos-Hänchen shifts and optical bistability due to surface plasmon excitations. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 67, 2092–2095 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.67.2092

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