Published July 2007
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Journal article
Surface waves with photorefractive nonlinearity
Creators
- 1. Photonics Research Center, MOE Key Lab of Advanced Technique and Fabrication for Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics Materials, and Tianjin Key Lab of Photonics Materials and Technology for Information Science, Nankai University, 300071 Tianjin (China)
Description
The photorefractive surface waves with photorefractive nonlinearity of diffusion, drift, and photovoltaic effect is studied numerically for the first time. We find out that the essential cause of photorefractive surface waves is diffusion mechanism, but not drift and photovoltaic effects. The photovoltaic effect only has strong influence on the profile of photorefractive surface waves; the applied external electric field can also change the profile of the surface waves, and even destroy the mode upon a threshold, which provides a possible method to transform the modes of surface waves between high-frequency modes and low-frequency modes
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 76
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 013827-013827.7
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39033612
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT; RADIATIONS
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- Notes
- (c) 2007 The American Physical Society