OPTICAL-PROPERTIES OF TE NONLINEAR-WAVES IN PLANAR WAVE-GUIDES WITH 2NONLINEAR BOUNDING LAYERS

We present optical properties of stationary TE nonlinear guided waves in a planar waveguide which consists of a linear guiding layer with tw o nonlinear bounding layers sandwiched between a semi-infinite clad an d a substrate. The nonlinear dispersion relation of the nonlinear wave guides is obtained by adopting the nonlinear transfer matrix. The opti cal properties obtained from these relations include: the power depend ence of mode indices, the transition of the field maximum location, th e power distributions, and the behavior of the interface fields. The p lanar waveguide with self-focusing nonlinear layers shows the optical bistability of power-dependent mode indices, and the critical powers f or the optical bistability increase with decreasing thickness of the n onlinear layers. The power distributions and the interface fields disp lay the optical bistabilities, similar to those of nonlinear Fabry-Per ot etalon.