Linear and nonlinear waves in surface and wedge index potentials. Academic Article

abstract

• We study optical beams that are supported at the surface of a medium with a linear index potential and by a piecewise linear wedge-type potential. In the linear limit the modes are described by Airy functions. In the nonlinear regime we find families of solutions that bifurcate from the linear modes and study their stability for both self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr nonlinearity. The total power of such nonlinear waves is finite without the need for apodization.

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Efremidis, N. K., Papazoglou, D. G., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Efremidis, Nikolaos K||Papazoglou, Dimitrios G||Tzortzakis, Stelios

publication date

• June 2012

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4015 Maritime Engineering
• 51 Physical Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.37.001874

start page

• 1874

end page

• 1876

volume

• 37

issue

• 11

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.37.001874