Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics

Optical bistability of a nonlinear microcavity

Meiping Jiang

Published Jan 1, 2009• 1 citation

Abstract

Based on Fabry-Perot cavity's theories and efficiency refractive index,the optical bistability of a nonlinear microcavity is studied,and the corresponding mathematical formula are deduced.The theoretical curves are well fitted with those of numerical simulation in other papers.The investigation shows that appropriate frequency-shifting should be preset on the incident light in order to produce bistability for a nonlinear system.If the system is composed of focusing nonlinear medium,the frequency must be redshifted, otherwise it must be blue-shifted.The magnitude of critical shifting is 0.866 times of the width of microcavity resonance mode.

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