DocumentCode
1088271
Title
Conditions of excitation of new waves (LITW) at nonlinear interface and diagram of wave states in the system
Author
Kaplan, Alexander E.
Author_Institution
Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab., M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA
Volume
17
Issue
3
fYear
1981
fDate
3/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
336
Lastpage
340
Abstract
We have found the conditions for the excitation of all of the possible waves in a nonlinear medium with a "negative" nonlinearity, in the case when a plane wave is incident from a linear medium upon a plane surface of the nonlinear mediums. We show that these conditions depend on only two independent parameters so that all possible states of the interface can be represented in a two-dimensional diagram. This diagram consists of regions of surface waves (SW), plane waves (PW), and so-called longitudinally inhomogeneous traveling waves (LITW) which were studied recently. The diagram includes two triple points: the first one corresponds to the intersection of boundaries between regions of SW, PW, and LITW states, while the other corresponds to the formation of the hysteresis (i.e., bistable) region between PW and LITW states.
Keywords
Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Hysteresis; Interface phenomena; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical surface waves; Refractive index; Surface waves;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9197
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JQE.1981.1071103
Filename
1071103
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