Abstract
It is found that the optical bistability in an absorbing molecular gas may develop as a result of the nonlinearity of the dependence of the optical excitation rate of molecules on the nonequilibrium vibrational energy of the system.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
V. M. SHMELYOV, N. V. YEVTYUKHIN, and A. D. MARGOLIN
WDD6 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 1989
P. MUKHERJEE and H. S. KWOK
THM15 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1988
J. W. Wu, R. A. Norwood, A. F. Garito, and P. Kalyanaraman
FBB6 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1988