Optical surface waves supported and controlled by thermal waves
Optics
2009-11-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We address the formation of optical surface waves at the very edge of semiconductor materials illuminated by modulated light beams that generate thermal waves rapidly fading in the bulk material. We find families of thresholdless surface waves which existing due to the combined action of thermally-induced refractive index modulations and instantaneous Kerr-type nonlinearity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.4251,
title = {Optical surface waves supported and controlled by thermal waves},
author = {Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh and Lluis Torner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4251},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters