TM Standing Wave Solution of Maxwell Equations in a Self-Defocusing Kerr Media and its Application to a Thin-Film Waveguide

Abstract

We applied the dielectric function method to solve analytically L-NL-L structure problems with negative Kerr nonlinearity. A damped wave in linear and a periodic standing wave in non-linear media had to be matched at boundaries. We gave a formulation of boundary conditions that did not explicitly include a film thickness. The boundary-value of a dielectric function can be expressed through the constant of non-trivial integral of motion. Using it, one generates a family of matched solutions satisfying boundary conditions. Then arbitrary film thickness can be checked against this family of solutions in search of matches. As a result, all fitted solutions are determined straightforwardly.