Habitat for Creative Electromagneticists

Nonlinear Optics


Goals

We have studied the interaction of optical signals with nonlinear media and how those interactions can be engineered to improve the performance of various optical devices.

 

Papers

  1.  G. Slavcheva, J.M. Arnold, and R.W. Ziolkowski, “FDTD simulation of the nonlinear gain dynamics in active optical waveguides and semiconductor microcavities,” IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 10, pp. 1052-1062, Sept/Oct. 2004.  

  2. G. Slavcheva, J.M. Arnold, I. Wallace, and R.W. Ziolkowski, “Coupled Maxwell-pseudospin equations for investigation of self-induced transparency effects in a degenerate three-level quantum system in two-dimensions: Finite-difference time-domain study,” Phys. Rev. A, vol. 66, 063418-1:063418-21, December 2002.  

  3. R. R. Boye, R. W. Ziolkowski, and R. K. Kostuk, “Resonant waveguide grating switching device with nonlinear optical material,” Applied Optics, Vol. 38, No. 24, pp. 5181-5185, August 1999.  

  4. R. W. Ziolkowski, “Realization of an all-optical triode and diode with a two-level atom loaded diffraction gratingpapers/Mult_Level_Atoms/Ziolkowski_Opt_Triode_Appl_Opt_Nov_1997.pdf,” Appl. Opt., Vol. 36, No. 33, pp. 8547-8556, November 1997.  

  5. R. W. Ziolkowski and J. B. Judkins, “NL-FDTD Modeling of Linear and Nonlinear Corrugated Waveguides,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 11(9), pp. 1565-1575, 1994.  

  6. R. W. Ziolkowski and J. B. Judkins, “Applications of Discrete Methods to Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Media: Self-Focusing and Linear-Nonlinear Interfaces,” Radio Sci., Vol. 28(5), pp. 901-911, 1993.  

  7. R. W. Ziolkowski and J. B. Judkins, “Full-wave vector Maxwell equation modeling of the self-focusing of ultrashort optical pulses in a nonlinear Kerr medium exhibiting a finite response time,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 10(2), pp. 186-198, 1993.