OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN NONLOCALLY NONLINEAR PERIODIC STRUCTURES

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ASSANTO, G
STEGEMAN, GI
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10.1063/1.102941
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The transmission and reflection of electromagnetic guided waves by a periodic structure with a delocalized intensity-dependent nonlinearity was studied using a semianalytical approach. We show that such a nonlocal nonlinear distributed feedback grating can exhibit bistable and switching behaviors depending upon the input intensity and the detuning.
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