Abstract
In the last decade, the advances in integrated optics and photonic nano-devices have been greatly accelerated by the availability of high performance computing platforms and powerful numerical methods for device simulation and computer-aided design. Thus, high fabrication costs of complex photonic nano-devices make it imperative to have access to high-performance computational tools, which can greatly accelerate the device design process and reduce the design-fabrication-testing cycle. In this connection, in this talk we briefly review and compare several numerical methods that are commonly used to model the nonlinear optical properties of plasmonic nano-structures and, subsequently, by using specific examples, we illustrate how these methods can be employed to design and characterize active plasmonic nano-structures with unique optical properties. Examples of such nonlinear effects in plasmonic nanostructures include nonlinear excitation of plasmon modes in plasmonic cavities [1,2], formation of subwavelength plasmonic solitons [3] and plasmonic vortices [4] in plasmonic arrays, and nonlinear wave scattering by defects of metallic surfaces [5].
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