Self-induced instability of radiation in thin-film planar structure

摘要

The nonlinear dynamic phenomenon of the self-induced temporal instability of the light field, resonantly acting on the thin-film structure with nonlinear absorption, is described. Such effect has been observed in the case of excitation of a guided mode in multilayer structures by the prism-coupling technique with a low-power continuous-wave He-Ne laser radiation. This effect associated with the interface influence on the optical nonlinearity in thin-film structures.