TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical bistability near the optical Freedericksz transition
AU - Marquis, F.
AU - Meystre, P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge financial support from the NSF-Industry Optical Circuitry Cooperative. FM also acknowledges partial financial support by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research.
PY - 1987/6/15
Y1 - 1987/6/15
N2 - We discuss dispersive optical bistability near the intrinsic second-order-type optical Freedericksz transition in a nematic liquid crystal. The combined effects of this intrinsic transition and of the first-order-type phase transition imposed by the feedback mechanism, here a Fabry-Perot resonator, leads to novel effects absent from conventional bistable system.
AB - We discuss dispersive optical bistability near the intrinsic second-order-type optical Freedericksz transition in a nematic liquid crystal. The combined effects of this intrinsic transition and of the first-order-type phase transition imposed by the feedback mechanism, here a Fabry-Perot resonator, leads to novel effects absent from conventional bistable system.
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U2 - 10.1016/0030-4018(87)90009-5
DO - 10.1016/0030-4018(87)90009-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0023362234
VL - 62
SP - 409
EP - 412
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
SN - 0030-4018
IS - 6
ER -