Decelerating chirped soliton formation at femtosecond laser pulse propagation in a medium with one-photon absorption and gold nanorods

Abstract

We demonstrate the possibility of decelerating chirped soliton formation at femtosecond pulse propagation in a medium with gold nanoparticles. We take into account the dependence of one-photon absorption on the nanorod aspect ratio and time-dependent nanorod aspect ratio changing due to nanorod reshaping because of laser energy absorption. The soliton formation occurs due to laser radiation trapping by the nanorod reshaping front. We show analytically that a chirp induced by the negative phase grating is crucial for this trapping.