Computation of the electromagnetic harmonics generation by stratified systems containing nonlinear layers

✍ Scribed by Anna Calderone; Jean-Pol Vigneron

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 298 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-461x(1998)70:4/5<763::aid-qua22>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

We propose a computational technique to evaluate the reflectivity and the transmission of the harmonics generated by a planar-stratified material containing nonlinear layers. Maxwell's equations are solved and the scattering boundary conditions are implemented using a transfer matrix technique. As our goal beyond this study is to model sum-frequency generation spectra, our approach is limited to second-order processes. The great advantage of this algorithm is that owing to a self-consistent procedure the nonlinear scattering problem is reduced to the repeated solving of linear equations.