Optical bistability in the semilinear phase-conjugate mirror

✍ Scribed by Wiesław Królikowski; Mark Cronin-Golomb

• Book ID: 104738612
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 411 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-7269
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00357669

✦ Synopsis

It is shown theoretically that the semilinear phase conjugate mirror exhibits bistability when it is "seeded" by a weak external pump beam. Full hysteresis in the output intensity is obtained when the "seed" intensity is swept through the two-stable-states region and the coupling strength is below the self-oscillation threshold.