Mirrorless dispersive optical bistability due to cross trapping of counterpropagating beams in sodium vapor
| Autor: | Nasser Peyghambarian, Hyatt M. Gibbs, André Mysyrowicz, Kuochou Tai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Bistability business.industry Quantitative Biology::Molecular Networks Physics::Optics Nonlinear optics Trapping Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Optical bistability Four-wave mixing Optics Physics::Accelerator Physics Physics::Atomic Physics Phase conjugation business Mixing (physics) Beam (structure) |
| Zdroj: | Optics letters. 10(5) |
| ISSN: | 0146-9592 |
| Popis: | We report the first observation to our knowledge of mirrorless optical bistability based on a dispersive effect, namely, cross-trapping optical bistability due to the mutual interaction of two counterpropagating beams. The phase conjugation of a probe beam generated by four-wave mixing in such a system is sensitive to the intensities of the counterpropagating beams and has been used to monitor the bistability. |
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