Abstract
Most saturably absorbing dyes show a large unstaturable loss which removes the possibility of purely absorptive bistability. However, nonradiative dyes such as those used for Q-switching have an intensity-dependent phase shift which may allow bistability. We will show that this nonlinear refractive index comes from the population redistribution during saturable absorption.
© 1983 Optical Society of America
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