Optical Bistability and Mirror Confinement Induced by Radiation Pressure
- 24 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (17), 1550-1553
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.1550
Abstract
This paper reports the observation of optical bistability due to a radiation-pressure-induced change of the length of a Fabry-Perot resonator. In addition, for higher laser powers, a purely optical mechanism leading to the stabilization of the resonator has been observed.Keywords
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