✦ LIBER ✦
Optical bistability in periodic nonlinear structures containing left handed materials
✍ Scribed by Ravi S. Hegde; Herbert G. Winful
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-2477
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✦ Synopsis
We study the transmission properties of a nonlinear periodic structure containing alternating slabs of a nonlinear right-handed material and a linear left-handed material. We find that the transmission associated with the zero-averaged refractive-index gap exhibits a bistable characteristic that is relatively insensitive to incident angles. This is in contrast to the nonlinear behavior of the usual Bragg gap.