Observation of optical hysteresis in an all-optical passive ring cavity containing molecular gas
- 15 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 44 (8) , 716-718
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.94920
Abstract
Dispersive optical hysteresis in an all optical passive unidirectional ring cavity containing a molecular gas has been observed. Ammonia is used as the nonlinear medium off resonantly excited on the aR(1,1) transition using temporally smooth 100‐ns pulses from a transversely, excited, atmospheric pressure CO2 laser. Results are in excellent agreement with the theory of Ikeda recently generalized by the authors to describe period doubling in this system.Keywords
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