Optical bistability in molecular systems exhibiting nonlinear absorption
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (5) , 2175-2183
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.2175
Abstract
The recently developed nonlinear complex eikonal approximation, which was previously employed to study dispersively nonlinear resonators, is applied to absorptively nonlinear resonator configurations. Conditions for obtaining optical bistability in molecular absorbers are derived and the photophysical consequences are discussed.Keywords
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