Nonlinear optics in anisotropic media

Issue title: A perspective on bianisotropy and Bianisotropics’97

Guest editors: Werner S. Weiglhofer

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Arnold, J.M.^a | Hutchings, D.C.^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK

Abstract: Nonlinear electromagnetic propagation in materials having anisotropic nonlinear susceptibilities induces complex dynamical phenomena which can be controlled by appropriate engineering of the material. Two optical examples are studied, of second‐harmonic generation and third‐order polarisation instabilities in cubic semiconductors, exemplified by gallium arsenide.

DOI: 10.3233/JAEM-1998-113

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 157-165, 1998