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We theoretically investigate the characteristics of the resonant modes and the optical bistability (OB) effect in the proposed metal–insulator–metal plasmonic structure containing Kerr nonlinear medium. By using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, it is found that the plasmon resonance modes can be modulated with the change of the height of metallic grating, the thickness of Kerr material layer and refractive index. We also study the characteristic of OB with the correspondingly detuning parameters. The designed plasmonic structure can be potentially applied to projecting SPP-based nonlinear optical devices in integrated optical circuits.

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Responses of free standing subwavelength annular dielectric nanorod arrays are described. Extreme reflection peaks with high quality factor follow a multiple scattering approach, which can be explained by geometrical resonance. It is demonstrated that the value and the resonant frequency of the sharp geometric resonance modes can be tuned by geometric parameters such as the outer radius, inner radius of the annular nanorod array, and incidence angle sensitively, which can provide new regulating factors and guidance for the design of novel optical device using the dielectric material with a lower volume.