Optical bistability with surface plasmons beyond plane waves in a nonlinear dielectric

S. Dutta Gupta, G. S. Agarwal
1986 Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics  
Optical bistability with surface plasmons is studied assuming nonlinear polaritons in a Kerr medium. Significant departures from the plane-wave results for the switching intensities and hysteresis curves are predicted.
doi:10.1364/josab.3.000236 fatcat:fqtgxvikevfjzbblbvqxurmlsu