Light scattering by nonlinear cylindrical multilayer structures

Ali Mirzaei; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Nina A. Zharova; Ilya V. Shadrivov

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.31.001595

Light scattering by nonlinear cylindrical multilayer structures

Ali Mirzaei^*, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Nina A. Zharova, Ilya V. Shadrivov

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Abstract

We study light scattering by cylindrical multilayer structures containing Kerr-type nonlinear materials. We develop a new semi-analytical method for solving such nonlinear problems by reducing the original 2D system by a 1D nonlinear Helmholtz equation. We apply our method for the case of wave scattering by the core-shell metal-dielectric nanowire and show that the nonlinearity allows us to control scattering cross section, which in the resonant regime demonstrates optical bistability. We compare our method with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach and find that the new approach is accurate and is 10⁵ times faster and more numerically robust than the FDTD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1595-1599
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	31
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.31.001595
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2014

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