A light-controlled light modulator
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 31 (7), 437-440
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89724
Abstract
A fast resonantly enhanced light‐controlled light modulator is demonstrated. Optical switching action is obtained with driving laser pulses with intensities as low as 2 kW/cm2. The switching mechanism is the optical nonlinearity due to adiabatic following for the single photon resonance.Keywords
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