Seminar series
Date
Mon, 23 Nov 2009
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Charles A. Stuart
Organisation
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
We consider monochromatic planar electro-magnetic waves propagating through a nonlinear dielectric medium in the optical regime.
Travelling waves are particularly simple solutions of this kind. Results on the existence of guided travelling waves will be reviewed. In the case of TE-modes, their stability will be discussed within the context of the paraxial approximation.