Plasmonic parametric resonance

TL;DR

This paper introduces Plasmonic Parametric Resonance (PPR), a new method to amplify high-order plasmonic modes in nanoparticles using uniform optical pumping, offering a potentially simpler detection and broader mode access.

Contribution

The paper presents the concept of PPR, demonstrating its ability to excite any high-order plasmonic mode with a uniform pump, and provides analytical threshold conditions and experimental schemes.

Findings

PPR can amplify high angular momentum plasmonic modes.

Threshold conditions for PPR are analytically derived.

PPR offers a straightforward experimental detection approach.

Abstract

We introduce the concept of Plasmonic Parametric Resonance (PPR) as a novel way to amplify high angular momentum plasmonic modes of nanoparticles by means of a simple uniform optical pump. In analogy with parametric resonance in dynamical systems, PPR originates from the temporal modulation of one of the parameters governing the evolution of the state of the system. As opposed to conventional localized surface plasmon resonances, we show that in principle any plasmonic mode of arbitrarily high order is accessible by PPR with a spatially uniform optical pump. Moreover, in contradistinction with other mechanisms of plasmonic amplification, the coherent nature of PPR lends itself to a more straightforward experimental detection approach. The threshold conditions for PPR are analytically derived. Schemes of experimental realization and detection are also discussed.