Differential Gain and Bistability Using a Sodium-Filled Fabry-Perot Interferometer

H. M. Gibbs; S. L. McCall; T. N. C. Venkatesan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1135

Differential Gain and Bistability Using a Sodium-Filled Fabry-Perot Interferometer

H. M. Gibbs, S. L. McCall, and T. N. C. Venkatesan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 1135 – Published 10 May 1976

Abstract

Differential gain and large hysteresis have been seen in the transmission of a Fabry-Perot interferometer containing Na vapor irradiated by light from a cw dye laser. Non-linear dispersion, neglected in earlier work, dominates over nonlinear absorption in Na. The apparatus uses only optical inputs and outputs. Similar apparatus may be useful as an optical amplifier, memory element, clipper, and limiter.

Received 9 February 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.1135

Authors & Affiliations

H. M. Gibbs^*, S. L. McCall, and T. N. C. Venkatesan^†

Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

^*Present address: Wy 361, Philips Research Laboratory, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
^†Resident visitor at Bell Laboratories from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11210.