Optical bistability at a nonlinear interface
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 35 (11) , 846-848
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.91001
Abstract
Under suitable conditions, the boundary between a linear and a nonlinear (Kerr effect) medium should have a reflection coefficient which exhibits hysteresis as a function of optical intensity. We present the first experimental evidence of this effect. Experiments were performed using ∼1‐ns ruby laser pulses incident on a glass‐CS2 boundary.Keywords
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