Mirrorless dispersive optical bistability due to cross trapping of counterpropagating beams in sodium vapor
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 10 (5), 220-222
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.10.000220
Abstract
We report the first observation to our knowledge of mirrorless optical bistability based on a dispersive effect, namely, cross-trapping optical bistability due to the mutual interaction of two counterpropagating beams. The phase conjugation of a probe beam generated by four-wave mixing in such a system is sensitive to the intensities of the counterpropagating beams and has been used to monitor the bistability.Keywords
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