Pulse-driven switching in one-dimensional nonlinear photonic band gap materials: a numerical study

We numerically examine the time-dependent properties of nonlinear bistable multilayer structures for constant wave illumination. We find that our syst em exhibits both steady-state and self-pulsing solutions. In the steady-sta te regime, we examine the dynamics of driving the system between different transmission states by injecting pulses, and we find optimal pulse paramete rs. We repeat this work for the case of a linear periodic system with a non linear impurity layer.