Bistability and self-pulsing in Cerenkov-type optical parametric interactions
Abstract
A Cerenkov optical parametric oscillator exhibiting optical bistability, hysteresis, self-pulsing and other effects for a single pulsing beam is discussed. In this device the waveguide Fabry-Perot resonator of the oscillator is placed inside the external Fabry-Perot interferometer, the latter being excited by a pumping beam incident onto one of the interferometer mirrors at an arbitrary angle. It is also assumed that for two natural modes of the waveguide Fabry-Perot resonator, one of two possible Cerenkov-type relations is satisfied. Optical bistability and hysteresis are achieved as a hard self-excitation of the parametrically coupled mode. The threshold intensity of the pumping beam can be very low.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1981.1071107
- Bibcode:
- 1981IJQE...17..384L
- Keywords:
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- Bistable Circuits;
- Cerenkov Radiation;
- Coupled Modes;
- Electromagnetic Pulses;
- Optical Resonators;
- Parametric Amplifiers;
- Harmonic Radiation;
- Hysteresis;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Optical Waveguides;
- Phase Shift;
- Steady State;
- Wave Excitation;
- Wave Interaction;
- Lasers and Masers