We report an experimental realization of a plasmonic Airy beam, which is generated thoroughly on a silver surface. With a carefully designed nanoarray structure, such Airy beams come into being from an in-plane propagating surface plasmon polariton wave, exhibiting nonspreading, self-bending, and self-healing properties. Besides, a new phase-tuning method based on nonperfectly matched diffraction processes is proposed to generate and modulate the beam almost at will. This unique plasmonic Airy beam as well as the generation method would significantly promote the evolutions in in-plane surface plasmon polariton manipulations and indicate potential applications in lab-on-chip photonic integrations.
Quasi-phase-matching optical parametric and cascaded parametric processes in a two-component quasiperiodic superlattice were studied in theory and experiment. This letter demonstrates how to obtain red at 666 nm and blue at 443 nm simultaneously from the superlattice using a 532 nm laser as a pump through these two processes mentioned above. The result confirms that some nonlinear frequency conversion processes occurring in a high-dimension χ(2) nonlinear photonic crystal may be efficiently achieved in such a one-dimension quasiperiodic optical superlattice.
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