• DocumentCode
    2884368
  • Title

    Regimes of polarization bistability in 1D anisotropic photonic crystals with a nonlinear defect

  • Author

    Peeters, Michael ; Van der Sande, Guy ; Veretennicoff, Irina ; Danckaert, Jan

  • Author_Institution
    Vrije Univ., Brussels, Belgium
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    101
  • Abstract
    This paper studies the effect of a Kerr-type nonlinear defect in an anisotropic photonic crystal and shows the resulting polarisation bistability as well as different regimes of operation.
  • Keywords
    anisotropic media; light polarisation; optical Kerr effect; optical bistability; photonic crystals; 1D photonic crystals; Kerr-type defect; anisotropic photonic crystals; nonlinear defect; polarization bistability; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Birefringence; Equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical devices; Optical polarization; Photonic crystals; Resonance; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8973-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567272
  • Filename
    1567272