Observation of optical hysteresis in an all-optical passive ring cavity containing molecular gas
Robert G. Harrison, W. J. Firth, Chassib A. Emshary +1 more
Dispersive optical hysteresis in an all optical passive unidirectional ring cavity containing a molecular gas has been observed. Ammonia is used as the nonlinear medium off resonantly excited on the aR(1,1) transition using temporally smooth 100-ns pulses from a transversely, excited, atmospheric pressure CO2 laser. Results are in excellent agreement with the theory of Ikeda recently generalized by the authors to describe period doubling in this system.
Applied Physics Letters•Apr 15, 1984•9 citations