Title :
Optical bistability in nonlinear fiber resonators driven by laser sources of arbitrary coherence
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Commun., ETSI Telecommun., Valencia, Spain
fDate :
1/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We present a theory of optical bistability for fiber resonators driven by amplitude-stabilized laser sources of arbitrary coherence. The nonlinear wave equation is solved and the results are applied to analyze the effect of the source coherence on the relevant parameters of the structure such as the switch-on and switch-off powers, the critical input power for the onset of bistability and the cavity critical mistuning
Keywords :
light coherence; optical bistability; optical fibre theory; optical fibres; optical resonators; amplitude-stabilized laser sources; arbitrary coherence; cavity critical mistuning; critical input power; laser sources; nonlinear fiber resonators; nonlinear wave equation; optical bistability; source coherence; switch-off powers; switch-on; Coherence; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser theory; Optical bistability; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Partial differential equations;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
