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  • International Quantum Electronics Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1984),
  • paper TuEE5

Theory and Experiment on Transverse Intensity Bistability in the Transmission of a Gaussian Laser Beam through a Nonlinear Thin Film

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Abstract

We present a detailed theory and quantitative experimental results on the transverse intensity distribution of a laser beam after its passage through a thin film possessing an intensity-dependent refractive index (i.e., n = n0 + n2Iop). Optical feedback is provided by imaging the output onto the film using a partially reflecting mirror, as depicted in Fig. TuEE5-l. Fundamentally, this is a new form of intrinsic optical bistability since it deals with the transverse as opposed to the usual Fabry-Perot-like longitudinal intensity bistability; also it does not involve a cavity.

© 1984 Optical Society of America

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