Optical multistability in 1D photonic crystals with nonlinear Thue–Morse structure

A 1D photonic crystal structure contains 16 layers, 8 common dielectric layers and 8 layers with nonlinear medium, with an arrangement similar to the 5th generation, Thue–Morse multilayer is presented. The properties of photonics band gap, field distribution and optical multistability are investigated. On the band gap, 5 resonant modes is observed. On the behavior of output intensity versus input intensity around resonant frequencies, the multistability response observed. When the frequency of incident field is close to the resonant frequency, the threshold intensity of multistability is decreased.