Abstract
Optical switching in nonlinear chiral distributed Bragg reflectors was studied with defect layers. The similarity of plane-wave propagation in any direction in an isotropic chiral medium and plane-wave propagation along the distinguished axis of an electrically gyrotropic medium was found to be incidental. Helmholtz equations were derived from frequency-domain formalism.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3042-3043 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2002 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics