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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Light-pressure bistability at microwave frequencies

Adriano Gozzini, Iginio Longo, Sebastiano Barbarino, Francesco Maccarrone, F. Mango

Published Nov 1, 1985• 59 citations
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Abstract

Evidence of bistability induced by radiation pressure in a system operating at millimeter bandwidth is presented. The transmittance of a microwave cavity equipped with a movable mirror becomes bistable under the variation of two control parameters: the incident field intensity and the incident field frequency. Good agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved.

DOI
10.1364/josab.2.001841

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