Accession Number:

ADP007590

Title:

Photonic Bloch Waves and Field Microstructure in Nonlinear Gratings: An Intuitive Approach,

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SOUTHAMPTON UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM)

Report Date:

1992-05-22

Abstract:

Coupled wave theory is commonly used in numerical simulations of reflection from nonlinear grating structures. By contrast, the complementary photonic Bloch wave PBW approach has rarely been adopted, perhaps the only example being recent work on gap solitons. Bloch wave theory offers an alternative physical intuitive picture that encourages one to think in terms of field microstructure, leading to a range of simple explanations for the behaviour of light in linear gratings. In this paper the dispersion relation and field microstructure of nonlinear Bloch waves are found, and used to clarify the physical mechanisms that lead to regions of bistability, instability and oscillation for incidence of a monochromatic plane wave on a nonlinear grating half-space.

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This article is from 'OSA Proceedings of the Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena Held in 2-4 September 1991. Cambridge, England United Kingdom. Volume 15', AD-A253 471, p244-247.

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0004

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