DocumentCode
2088225
Title
Modulational instability in photonic crystals with nonlocal nonlinearity
Author
Cheng, Szu-Cheng ; Hsieh, Wen-Feng
Author_Institution
Dept. of Phys., Chinese Culture Univ., Taipei
fYear
2004
fDate
21-21 May 2004
Firstpage
726
Lastpage
727
Abstract
We developed a k middot p theory to study the nonlinear effects in photonic crystals. We found that there exists a nonlocal nonlinearity in photonic crystals. This nonlocality suppresses modulational instability, but never removes it
Keywords
k.p calculations; optical Kerr effect; optical modulation; photonic crystals; k middot p theory; modulational instability; nonlocal nonlinearity; photonic crystals;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-778-4
Type
conf
Filename
1366972
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