Theory of a lossless nonlinear Fabry-Perot interferometer

Autor: F. S. Felber, J. H. Marburger
Rok vydání: 1978
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Zdroj: Physical Review A. 17:335-342
ISSN: 0556-2791
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.17.335
Popis: A Fabry-Perot interferometer filled with a medium whose refractive index depends upon intensity has a multiple-valued transmission-vs-intensity characteristic. When the incident light is circularly polarized, and the nonlinearity is only cubic in the fields, Maxwell's equations may be solved exactly for the plane-parallel resonator field in terms of elliptic functions. An accurate approximate analysis is given for more general cases, including resonators with spherical mirrors and finite beams, where self-focusing is important. The theory is developed to yield design information for operation as an optical switch, "transistor," and power limiter.
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