Standing wave effects in optical bistability

Rajarshi Roy, Muhammad Suhail Zubairy

Y. Ron Shen

Hen Q

Characteristics of A-O optical bistability with different acoustic travelling-wave coefficient a and effects of acoustic field state on the bistability are analysed. It is pointed out that for A-O bistability to be of practical usefulness the acoustic field should have a specific αcoefficient. When α=1 (i.e., pure acoustic standing-wave field) the A-O bistability becomes useless. Experimental results are in agreement with theories.

J. Goll, Hermann Haken

Abstract The saturation behaviour of excitons driven by an impinging electromagnetic plane wave is investigated. The nonlinear absorption coefficient and the nonlinear refractive index are determined. Taking care of the boundary conditions at the end faces of the crystal, the nonlinear transmissivity of the crystal is determined. The phenomenon of optical bistability is investigated taking into account standing wave effects and the influence of the detuning is discussed.

Hyatt M. Gibbs

Chunfei Li