Optical properties of binary composite materials with two nonlinear components

DOI10.1080/09500340308235242MaRDI QIDQ4470952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Pecharromán, F. J. Gordillo-Vázquez

Publication date 18 June 2004

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340308235242

zbMATH Keywords

absorption of lightKerr effectnonlinear susceptibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48)

Review text

The paper presents a calculation of effective linear and nonlinear optical characteristics of a composite medium, such as a dielectric with inclusion of conducting grains, assuming that both the host matrix and admixture feature the Kerr effect (cubic nonlinearity), and loss (an imaginary part of the refractive index). The resulting nonlinearity of the composite material is found to deviate from an exactly Kerr-like behavior, as the effective cubic susceptibility itself depends on the intensity of the electromagnetic wave: for low intensities, the admixture may produce a dominant contribution to the nonlinearity, while for stronger fields the nonlinear response is dominated by the contribution from the host material. The effective loss coefficient is found too, as a function of the wave's intensity, and of material parameters of the composite.

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