OPTICALLY NONLINEARS-POLARIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN MULTILAYERED SYMMETRIC DIELECTRICS

O. N. Vassiliev and M. G. Cottam ()
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O. N. Vassiliev: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7, Canada
M. G. Cottam: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7, Canada

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2000, vol. 07, issue 01n02, 89-102

Abstract: A theory is presented for the nonlinears-polarized electromagnetic waves in multilayer systems with an arbitrary number of planar interfaces. Each of the individual layers may be characterized by either a linear or a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric constant, and we examine the coupled nonlinear waves at both linear/nonlinear and nonlinear/nonlinear interfaces. An analysis of the phase trajectories (in terms of an electric field amplitude and its spatial derivative) is employed to enumerate the modes of the system in a systematic manner and to facilitate the derivation of dispersion relations. In particular, numerical examples are given for two-interface systems (for example, a thin film sandwiched between two semi-infinite media) and for periodic superlattices (with effectively infinite interfaces), thereby extending previous calculations.

Keywords: , 42.65.Sf; 68.65.+g; 71.36.+c (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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