Stability of nonlinear stationary waves guided by a thin film bounded by nonlinear media

31 March 1986

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 48 (13) , 826-828
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.96680

Abstract

The stability of stationary, TE₀‐type, nonlinear, thin‐film guided waves was investigated numerically for both symmetric and asymmetric planar waveguides with nonlinear cladding and substrate layers. It is found that large regions of the dispersion curves are unstable at high powers.

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