Optical surface waves supported and controlled by thermal waves
Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 5, pp. 506-508 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.000506
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Abstract
We address the formation of optical surface waves at the very edge of semiconductor materials illuminated by modulated light beams that generate thermal waves rapidly fading in the bulk material. We find families of thresholdless surface waves existing owing to the combined action of thermally-induced refractive index modulations and instantaneous Kerr-type nonlinearity.
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OCIS Codes
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 5, 2007
Revised Manuscript: January 19, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: January 23, 2008
Published: February 28, 2008
Citation
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner, "Optical surface waves supported and controlled by thermal waves," Opt. Lett. 33, 506-508 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-33-5-506
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