Optics Letters

Optical multistability in a nonlinear cavityless system

Ofer Werner, Moshe Horowitz, Baruch Fischer

Published Sep 1, 1992• 1 citation

Abstract

We describe an all-optical cavityless multistable system that does not necessitate coherent beams. The experimental demonstration showing bistability was done by using a strontium barium niobate crystal that has a nonlinear birefringence of thermal origin.

DOI: 10.1364/ol.17.001186

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