Title :
Optical bistability in BDN dye
Author :
Zhu, Zhen Fu ; Garmire, Elsa M.
Author_Institution :
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
10/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report optical bistability in a Fabry-Perot filled with BDN saturable absorbing dye occurring due to an intensity-dependent phase shift. A four-level model is used to show that the phase shift arises from nonresonant dispersion due to an excited metastable state which is excited in the process of saturable absorption. Preliminary experiments confirm the theoretical predictions.
Keywords :
Bistability, optical; Dyes; Fabry-Perot interferometers; Optical bistability; Optical propagation in absorbing media; Absorption; Dispersion; Fabry-Perot; Laser beams; Laser tuning; Optical bistability; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Solvents; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1983.1071765
