Bistable Goos-Hänchen shift owing to leaky-mode excitation in a slab waveguide with Kerr nonlinear medium

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ae00b3

Abstract We investigate the nonlinear Goos-Hänchen shift of a light beam reflected from a prism-coupled leaky waveguide containing a Kerr medium. As the incident power varies, the system can switch between two states, total internal reflection and frustrated total reflection, owing to the inherent positive feedback arising from the intensity-dependent guiding mode resonance. The reflectance exhibits optical bistability; meanwhile, the lateral shift of the reflected beam also shows hysteresis behavior. It is found that the transition between the two stable states is related to the excitation of a leaky mode in the waveguide, which results from the modulation of the electric field in the nonlinear substrate. We also analyze the effects of system parameters on the bistable Goos-Hänchen shift. The thresholds as well as the width of the hysteresis curve are sensitive to the thicknesses of the gap layer and the guiding layer, which determine the resonance angle. The bistable lateral displacement in the slab waveguide may have potential applications in optical switching, beam steering, etc.

Keywords: Goos-Hänchen shift optical bistability waveguide nonlinear optics

Received: 01 August 2025
Revised: 25 August 2025
Accepted manuscript online: 29 August 2025

PACS:	42.65.-k	(Nonlinear optics)
	78.67.Pt	(Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)
	78.20.Ci	(Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))

Fund: This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province of China (Grant No. 20220101031JC).

Corresponding Authors: Li Jiang, Ren-Gang Wan
E-mail: jiangli@cust.edu.cn;wrg@snnu.edu.cn

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Yuan-Ping Cai(蔡园平), Li Jiang(姜丽), and Ren-Gang Wan(万仁刚) Bistable Goos-Hänchen shift owing to leaky-mode excitation in a slab waveguide with Kerr nonlinear medium 2026 Chin. Phys. B 35 044203

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