• DocumentCode
    1095346
  • Title

    Optical bistability in BDN dye

  • Author

    Zhu, Zhen Fu ; Garmire, Elsa M.

  • Author_Institution
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    10/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1495
  • Lastpage
    1498
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1983.1071765
  • Filename
    1071765
    • Link To Document
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