Widely varying giant Goos–Hänchen shifts from airy beams at nonlinear interfaces

Chamorro-Posada, P; Sánchez-Curto, J; Aceves, AB; McDonald, GS

Abstract

We present a numerical study of the giant Goos–Hänchen shifts (GHSs) obtained from an Airy beam impinging on a nonlinear interface. To avoid any angular restriction associated with the paraxial approximation, the analysis is based on the nonlinear Helmholtz equation. We report the existence of nonstandard nonlinear GHSs displaying an extreme sensitivity to the input intensity and the existence of multiple critical values. These intermittent and oscillatory regimes can be explained in terms of competition between critical coupling to a surface mode and soliton emission from the refracted beam component and how this interplay varies with localization of the initial Airy beam.

Citation

Chamorro-Posada, P., Sánchez-Curto, J., Aceves, A., & McDonald, G. (2014). Widely varying giant Goos–Hänchen shifts from airy beams at nonlinear interfaces. Optics Letters, 39(6), 1378-1381. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.001378

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 20, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jan 24, 2014
• Publication Date: Mar 5, 2014
• Deposit Date: May 6, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Journal: Optics Letters
• Print ISSN: 0146-9592
• Electronic ISSN: 1539-4794
• Publisher: Optical Society of America
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1378-1381
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.001378
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.001378
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