Abstract
For a system showing intrinsic optical bistability due to an absorption which increases with increasing excitation density, we investigate the transverse beam profile variations assuming that longitudinal diffusion over the sample length is enough to exclude formation of longitudinal kinks.1 The general features of our results apply to induced absorption in semiconductors and to other diffusive nonlinear mechanisms.2
© 1987 Optical Society of America
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