Optical bistability switching with external noise
- 1 January 1987
- proceedings article
- Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings
- Vol. 160 (1) , 190
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.36723
Abstract
In a bistable system the switching time between the off and the on states is a measure of noise and fluctuations. For a CO2 laser containing a molecular absorber, the distribution of the switching times has been measured at different noise levels in the control parameter. The first passage time from the Fokker‐Planck equation has been compared to the experiment.Keywords
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