2014-03-20
Optical Bistability in a Grating with Slits Filled Nonlinear Media
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 35, 133-139, 2014
Abstract
An approximate self-consistent solution of the problem of plane electromagnetic wave diffraction on a thick grating of metallic bars with slits between the bars filled a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric is solved. The bistable operating regime of wave transmission through the grating is studied.
Citation
Lyudmila A. Kochetova, Segiy L. Prosvirnin, and Vladimir R. Tuz, "Optical Bistability in a Grating with Slits Filled Nonlinear Media," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 35, 133-139, 2014.
doi:10.2528/PIERM14012606
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