Optical bistability in periodic nonlinear structures containing left handed materials

摘要

We study the transmission properties of a nonlinear periodic structure containing alternating slabs of a nonlinear right-handed material and a linear left-handed material. We find that the transmission associated with the zero-averaged refractive-index gap exhibits a bistable characteristic that is relatively insensitive to incident angles. This is in contrast to the nonlinear behavior of the usual Bragg gap. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 46: 528–530, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21037