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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4
