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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1989),
  • paper WDD13

Intrinsic optical bistability in a cavity

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Abstract

We have investigated wave propagation through a nonlinear medium in a ring cavity. The medium is modeled by a collection of nonlinear harmonic oscillators, and transverse effects on the wave propagation are retained in the model. Previously, this model has been studied without a cavity, since it is a prototype example of an intrinsically bistable medium.1-3 Diffraction effects have predicted a wave-guiding effect for the light, and the bistable characteristics, such as the contrast and threshold intensities, are not sensitive to the Fresnel number, i.e., a measure of the Importance of the diffraction coupling between the adjacent light rays.

© 1989 Optical Society of America

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