Optical bistability in a nonlinear shell coated metallic nanoparticle

• Main Authors: Gao, Lei, Chen, Hongli, Zhang, Youming, Zhang, Baile
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Metamaterials; Nonlinear Optics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83889; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42856
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We provide a self-consistent mean field approximation in the framework of Mie scattering theory to study the optical bistability of a metallic nanoparticle coated with a nonlinear shell. We demonstrate that the nanoparticle coated with a weakly nonlinear shell exhibits optical bistability in a broad...