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Optical bistability based on self-focusing

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a fundamentally new type of intrinsic optical bistability that requires no resonant optical cavity. Operation is based on mutual self-focusing of counterpropagating laser beams in a nonlinear medium.

© 1981 Optical Society of America

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