Nonlinear Optical Wave Equation for Micro- and Nano-Structured Media and Its Application

Abstract

A novel optical wave equation is developed for optical wave propagation and interaction in materials with intrinsic or induced macroscopic spatial inhomegeneity. It shows that the effect of spatial inhomogeneity is most pronounced for sizes of inhomogeneities on a sub-wavelength scale, that is in materials commonly referred to as nanophotonic materials. Respectively the new equation provides a rigorous theoretical template for emerging experimental activity worldwide in the area of linear and nonlinear nanophotonics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA582416

Entities

People

  • Valeri I. Kovalev

Organizations

  • Russian Academy of Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Light Scattering
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Plane Waves
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Wave Equations
  • Wave Mixing
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers