Phase switching in optical-subharmonic generation: an alternate-bistable operation of a nonlinear Fabry-Perot resonator

Horatiu Totia; Marius Micluta

doi:10.1117/12.203549

8 March 1995 Phase switching in optical subharmonic generation: an alternate bistable operation of a nonlinear Fabry-Perot resonator

Horatiu Totia, Marius Micluta

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Proceedings Volume 2461, ROMOPTO '94: Fourth Conference in Optics; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.203549
Event: ROMOPTO '94: 4th Conference on Optics, 1994, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

In this paper we present a theory of optical subharmonic generation in a nonlinear Fabry-Perot resonator. Our approach, based on classical electrodynamics, leads to a Mathieu-Hill-type equation. This enables us to describe the generation of optical subharmonic oscillation in terms of a general formalism used to account for parametric phenomena, and to outline the possibility of using a nonlinear Fabry-Perot resonator as a memory device able to store the phase of a signal. The oscillation threshold condition is discussed and the rate of amplitude rise at start-up is evaluated.

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Horatiu Totia and Marius Micluta "Phase switching in optical subharmonic generation: an alternate bistable operation of a nonlinear Fabry-Perot resonator", Proc. SPIE 2461, ROMOPTO '94: Fourth Conference in Optics, (8 March 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.203549

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