Theoretical Study of Nonlinear Surface and Inhomogeneous Processes and Their Applications to Optical Bistability.
Abstract
Some fundamentally novel nonlinear optical devices were proposed and experimentally realized (in collaborative experiments with P.W. Smith, W.J. Thomlinson and J. Bjorkholm at Bell Laboratories). These results have been published in fourteen papers by the principal investigator (some of them in collaboration with researchers at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, and Max-Planck-Institute fur Quantenoptick, Garching, Germany). The unified theory of plane-wave reflection and reflection at nonlinear interfaces was considered. Excitation of inhomogeneous traveling waves, which are peculiar features for negative nonlinearity, have been studied. It was shown analytically that in the case of limited (Gaussian) beam incidence, the nonlinear surface wave, observed in some recent computer simulations, is strictly forbidden, and an approximate theory of reflection in such a case has been developed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 13, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA118653
Entities
People
- Alexander F.H. Kaplan
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology