Doppler Shift of Self-Reflected Optical Pulses at an Interface: Dynamic Nonlinear Optical Skin Effect
- 13 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (20) , 3695-3698
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.3695
Abstract
We introduce the dynamic nonlinear optical skin effect in which a pulse incident on a saturable absorbing interface is self-reflected from a moving absorption front. The motion of the front causes the self-reflected wave to be redshifted by the Doppler effect, which in turn serves as an experimentally observable signature for the front propagation.Keywords
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