Intrinsic optical bistability between left-handed material and nonlinear optical materials
Shi Hong-Yan (时红艳)a, Jiang Yong-Yuan (姜永远)a, Sun Xiu-Dong (孙秀冬)a, Guo Ru-Hai (郭汝海)a, Zhao Yi-Ping (赵一平)b
a Department of Applied Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China ; b Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia,Athens, GA 30602-2451, USA
Abstract The electromagnetic properties of the interface between a left-handed material and a conventional nonlinear material were investigated theoretically and numerically. We found a new phenomenon---optical bistability of the interface. It was shown that the incident intensity, incident angle and permeability ratio between the left-handed and the nonlinear materials could dramatically affect the optical bistable behaviour. We also compared the bistable behaviours of different electromagnetic modes. The results indicated that the TE mode was prior to the TM mode to obtain optical bistability for the same parameter.
Received: 14 October 2004
Revised: 15 March 2005
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
42.65.Pc
(Optical bistability, multistability, and switching, including local field effects)
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 90201003) and the
Program of Science and Technology from Heilongjiang Province, China.
Cite this article:
Shi Hong-Yan (时红艳), Jiang Yong-Yuan (姜永远), Sun Xiu-Dong (孙秀冬), Guo Ru-Hai (郭汝海), Zhao Yi-Ping (赵一平) Intrinsic optical bistability between left-handed material and nonlinear optical materials 2005 Chinese Physics 14 1571
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