{"title":"Optical Bistability in Nonlinear Media: An Exact Method of Calculation","authors":"Y. Band","doi":"10.1063/1.333982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.333982","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent paper1 I formulated a method for calculating propagation through nonlinear media for a number of nonlinear optical phenomena. This method does not use the SVEA and can therefore solve nonlinear propagation problems when refraction and reflection at the boundary interfaces are important. Here, I report the first calculation using this exact (albeit numerical) method. For this first test of the utility of the method, I have chosen to study optical bistability in a thin film whose index of refraction is intensity dependent.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127757260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Harrison, W. Firth, C. A. Emshary, I. A. Al-Saidi
{"title":"Observation of Optical Hysteresis in an all optical passive ring cavity","authors":"R. Harrison, W. Firth, C. A. Emshary, I. A. Al-Saidi","doi":"10.1063/1.94920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.94920","url":null,"abstract":"We report the first observation of dispersive optical hysteresis in an all optical passive uni-directional ring cavity system. Ammonia gas is used as the non-linear medium for which a number of vibrational-rotational transitions (1) are in near coincidence with the step tunable emission from a TEA CO2 laser. Pronounced instabilities and optical hysteresis are found to occur over a gas pressure range commensurate with that for self-focussing A grating tunable hybrid TEA CO2 laser with amplifier, operating on a single mode, with a gain switched pulse duration of ~ 100 nsec was used. The laser output, sampled via a beam splitter, was coupled through a Ge flat (R = 36%) which formed one element of the three element ring cavity (cavity length ~ 3.5 m) comprising two plane mirrors and incorporating a 1 m long gas cell and beam splitter for sampling the cavity signal. Signals were recorded using photon drag detectors in conjunction with Tektronix 7904/7104 oscilloscopes.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131694338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Absorptive Optical Bistability with Laser Amplitude Fluctuations","authors":"M. Kuś, K. Wódkiewicz, J. Gallas","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"3 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113959444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Periodic window, period doubling, and chaos in a liquid crystal bistable optical device","authors":"Jaewon Song, Hai-Young Lee, Sang-Yung Shin, Young-Se Kwon","doi":"10.1063/1.94150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.94150","url":null,"abstract":"A twisted nematic liquid crystal (TNLC) bistable optical device is constructed to study the Feigenbaum scenario1 in a manner of Gibbs et al.2 The simple transmission, having a single near-trapezoidal hump and a non-negligible extinction level, facilitates experimental observation and computer simulation. A number of periodic windows, i.e. 3, 4, 5, and 7T(T means a period), have been easily observed as well as period doublings up to 4T and chaos. It was also confirmed that these waveforms have the 'universal-sequence' patterns reported by Metropolis et al.3 Based on a simple 'broken-linear' modelling of the TNLC modulator transmission characteristics, the computer simulation has been performed to show period doublings, periodic windows, and period mergings. It exhibits reasonably good agreement with the experiment, and explains easy observation of periodic windows.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129514128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The NMR Laser - A Nonlinear Solid State System Showing Chaos","authors":"E. Brun, B. Derighetti, R. Holzner, D. Meier","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115366151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Theory of Optical Excitonic Bistability","authors":"C. Gardiner, M. Steyn-Ross","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.thb28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.thb28","url":null,"abstract":"A fully quantum mechanical formulation of the electron-hole-exciton-light system is developed following the work of Hanamura. In this formulation 1. The excitons are described by the \"bosonisation transformation of Marumori et al. In this method exciton bose operators are introduced to describe electron-hole pairs, and anti symmetrisation effects are taken account of by a unitary transformation of the system operators, which introduces extra nonlinearities into the hamiltonian. This means that exclusion principle effects at high exciton densities are fully accounted for. The theory is formulated for Wannier (non-localised) excitons.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121041382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Room Temperature Optical Nonlinearities in GaAs Multiple Quantum Wells","authors":"D. A. Miller, D. S. Cnemla, A. Gossard, P. Smith","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.thc2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.thc2","url":null,"abstract":"Progress towards practical all-optical switching and signal processing devices depends crucially on finding suitable nonlinear materials. Consequently, various workers have explored so-called 'dynamic' nonlinear optical effects in semiconductors(1) in which the optical properties change as a result of real excitation of the material. Semiconductors are particularly attractive for fabrication as small devices. Unfortunately, while some of these effects should persist to room temperature, one of the most attractive, saturation of free exciton resonances(2) is basically limited to low temperatures in conventional semiconductors because of thermal broadening.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121424364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. W. Hillman, R. Boyd, J. Krasinski, C. R. Stroud
{"title":"Intrinsic Instabilities in Homogeneously Broadened Lasers","authors":"L. W. Hillman, R. Boyd, J. Krasinski, C. R. Stroud","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_44","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134483804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Slowing Down and Magnetically-Induced Self-Pulsing in a Sodium-Filled Fabry-Perot Resonator","authors":"J. Mlynek, F. Mitschke, W. Lange","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115913615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}