Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics

Switching waves in a multistable Fabry-Perot interferometer with a thermooptic nonlinearity

A V Grigor'yants, L. L. Golik, Yu. A. Rzhanov, Matvey I. Elinson, Yu. I. Balkareǐ

Published May 31, 1984• 4 citations

Abstract

Numerical and experimental investigations were made of those characteristics of switching waves which were due to multistability of an extended Fabry–Perot interferometer with a thermooptic nonlinearity. A study was made of the propagation and interaction of waves of different amplitudes.

DOI: 10.1070/qe1984v014n05abeh005129

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