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Kinks: Longitudinal excitation discontinuities in increasing absorption optical bistability

  • H. M. Gibbs
  • , G. R. Olbright
  • , N. Peyghambarian
  • , H. E. Schmidt
  • , S. W. Koch
  • , H. Haug

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Abstract

Longitudinal excitation discontinuities (kinks) that arise from partial-sample switching in increasing absorption bistability are predicted theoretically and observed in a sharp-cut color filter. The kinks give rise to a sawtooth output temporal dependence for a triangular input shape. Kinks are an emphatic illustration of the local nature of increasing absorption bistability.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)692-694
Number of pages3
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume32
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1985

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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