Optical Bistability and Mirror Confinement Induced by Radiation Pressure
Abstract
This paper reports the observation of optical bistability due to a radiation-pressure-induced change of the length of a Fabry-Perot resonator. In addition, for higher laser powers, a purely optical mechanism leading to the stabilization of the resonator has been observed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1550
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvL..51.1550D
- Keywords:
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- Mirrors;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Optical Bistability;
- Optical Resonators;
- Radiation Effects;
- Radiation Pressure;
- Fabry-Perot Interferometers;
- Hysteresis;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Stability;
- Optics;
- 42.65.-k;
- Nonlinear optics