Exact solution for nonlinear thin-film guided waves in higher-order nonlinear media
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 5 (2) , 565-570
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.5.000565
Abstract
The intensity-dependent wave-vector and field distributions for TE-polarized nonlinear waves guided by a thin dielectric film bounded on one side by a higher-order nonlinear self-focusing cladding characterized by the dielectric function ∊ = ∊c+ αc|E|2 + βc|E|4 and on the other side by a linear substrate are calculated exactly. The stability to propagation of these stationary nonlinear wave solutions is investigated numerically. The results are compared with those obtained for Kerr-law nonlinear media.Keywords
This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
- p-polarized nonlinear surface polaritons in materials with intensity-dependent dielectric functionsPhysical Review B, 1985
- Bistable behaviour of light waves in a graded-index planar waveguide with nonlinear substratePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1984
- Bistable States ofs-Polarized Nonlinear Waves Guided by an Asymmetric Three Layer Dielectric StructurePhysica Scripta, 1984
- Nonlinear waves guided by thin filmsApplied Physics Letters, 1984
- TE modes of a layered nonlinear optical waveguideFlow, Turbulence and Combustion, 1984
- Surface polaritons in nonlinear mediaPhysical Review A, 1983
- Nonlinear waves guided by a dielectric slabApplied Physics B Laser and Optics, 1983
- P-Polarized nonlinear surface polaritons in layered structuresZeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, 1982
- s-Polarized nonlinear surface polaritonsZeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, 1981
- Surface wave at a nonlinear interfaceOptics Letters, 1980