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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 85 / Issue 9 / LASERS, OPTICS, AND OPTOELECTRONICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1451 (2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1787612 (3 pages)

Tunable transmission and bistability in left-handed band-gap structures

Michael W. Feise, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Nonlinear Physics Centre, Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

(Received 23 January 2004; accepted 29 June 2004)

We study the defect-induced nonlinear transmission of a periodic structure created by alternating slabs of two materials with positive and negative refractive index. We demonstrate bistable switching and tunable nonlinear transmission in an unconventional band gap that corresponds to the vanishing average refractive index, and compare the observed effects for two different types of band gaps.

© 2004 American Institute of Physics

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Keywords

optical bistability, periodic structures, refractive index, energy gap, pseudopotential methods, numerical analysis, nonlinear optics, optical switches

PACS

  • 42.65.Pc

    Optical bistability, multistability, and switching, including local field effects

  • 78.20.Ci

    Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity)

  • 71.15.Dx

    Computational methodology (Brillouin zone sampling, iterative diagonalization, pseudopotential construction)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1787612

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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