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Maxwell-Hydrodynamic Model for Simulating Nonlinear Terahertz Generation from Plasmonic Metasurfaces
The interaction between the electromagnetic field and plasmonic
nanostructures leads to both the strong linear response and inherent nonlinear
behavior. In this paper, a time-domain hydrodynamic model for describing the
motion of electrons in plasmonic nanostructures is presented, in which both
surface and bulk contributions of nonlinearity are considered. A coupled
Maxwell-hydrodynamic system capturing full-wave physics and free electron
dynamics is numerically solved with the parallel finite-difference time-domain
(FDTD) method. The validation of the proposed method is presented to simulate
linear and nonlinear responses from a plasmonic metasurface. The linear
response is compared with the Drude dispersion model and the nonlinear
terahertz emission from a difference-frequency generation process is validated
with theoretical analyses. The proposed scheme is fundamentally important to
design nonlinear plasmonic nanodevices, especially for efficient and broadband
THz emitters.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics
Computational Techniques, 201
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