STRONGLY NONLINEAR EFFECTS WITH WEAK NONLINEARITIES IN SMART WAVE-GUIDES

Authors
LEDERER F LEINE L MUSCHALL R PESCHEL T SCHMIDTHATTENBERGER C TRUTSCHEL U BOARDMAN AD WACHTER C
Citation
F. Lederer et al., STRONGLY NONLINEAR EFFECTS WITH WEAK NONLINEARITIES IN SMART WAVE-GUIDES, Optics communications, 99(1-2), 1993, pp. 95-100
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
99
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
95 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1993)99:1-2<95:SNEWWN>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A properly tailored semiconductor multifilm configuration may be viewe d as an effective waveguide with arbitrarily small refractive index di fferences. For the first time we report that strongly nonlinear effect s as the existence of nonlinear guided waves can occur in materials wi th weak, off-resonant Kerr nonlinearities. This result is expected to offer the opportunity to observe nonlinear guided waves experimentally .