Role of Diffractive Coupling and Self-Focusing or Defocusing in the Dynamical Switching of a Bistable Optical Cavity

J. V. Moloney; H. M. Gibbs

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1607

Role of Diffractive Coupling and Self-Focusing or Defocusing in the Dynamical Switching of a Bistable Optical Cavity

J. V. Moloney, H. M. Gibbs

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Optical bistability transients have been computed including one transverse Cartesian coordinate. With a Gaussian transverse input profile but weak diffractive coupling, the switchup intensity is radially dependent, and the output requires hundreds of round trips to reach steady state. Strong diffractive coupling results in whole-beam switchup and much faster convergence to steady state.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1607-1610
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	48
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1607
State	Published - 1982

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