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Optical bistability based on self-focusing

J E Bjorkholm1, P W Smith, W J Tomlinson

  • 1Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA.

Optics Letters
|August 25, 2009
PubMed

Abstract:

We experimentally demonstrate a fundamentally new type of intrinsic optical bistability that requires no resonant optical cavity. Operation is based on mutual self-focusing of counterpropagating laser beams in a nonlinear medium.

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