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Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics

Optical polarization multistability

G. G. Adonts, G. P. Dzhotyan, Eghine G. Kanetsyan

Published Jun 30, 1984• 0 citations
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Abstract

A theoretical investigation is made of the polarization characteristics of the optical polarization and amplitude multistability of a Fabry?Perot interferometer filled with a nonlinear resonant medium. In the case of linear polarization of the incident radiation it is shown that an amplitude hysteresis differs considerably from a hysteresis predicted by a scalar theory; moreover, the degree of polarization exhibits a hysteresis. A calculation is made of the critical input intensity of elliptically polarized radiation for which the ellipticity at the output rises strongly even when it is negligible at the input.

DOI
10.1070/qe1984v014n06abeh005156

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