Optical bistability in nonlocally nonlinear periodic structures
- 4 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 56 (23) , 2285-2287
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.102941
Abstract
The transmission and reflection of electromagnetic guided waves by a periodic structure with a delocalized intensity-dependent nonlinearity was studied using a semianalytical approach. We show that such a nonlocal nonlinear distributed feedback grating can exhibit bistable and switching behaviors depending upon the input intensity and the detuning.Keywords
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