Intrinsic optical bistability in a thin layer of nonlinear optical material by means of local field effects
| Autor: | Robert W. Boyd, Youngkwon Yoon, Ryan S. Bennink, John E. Sipe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Materials science
business.industry Phase (waves) Nonlinear optical material Physics::Optics Nonlinear optics Dielectric Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Optical bistability Amplitude Optics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Thin film business Local field |
| Zdroj: | Optics Communications. 179:577-580 |
| ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0030-4018(99)00739-7 |
| Popis: | We show that a single thin layer (thickness much less than an optical wavelength) of nonlinear optical material can display optical bistability solely as a consequence of local field effects. Optical bistability is predicted when the phase of the complex third-order susceptibility χ (3) is nearly opposite that of the linear dielectric constant ϵ and when the incident field amplitude is adjusted so that | χ (3) || E 0 | 2 is approximately equal to 10 −3 | ϵ | 3 . |
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