Optical hysteresis in a semilinear photorefractive coherent oscillator

Pierre Mathey (1) , Grégory Gadret (1) , S. Odoulov (2) , D. Rytz (3)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
2 Institute of Physics
3 Forschunginstitute für Mineralische und Metallische Werkstoffe

High contrast optical bistability is found experimentally in the pump-ratio dependences of the output intensity of a semilinear photorefractive coherent oscillator with two counterpropagating pump waves. The data are in qualitative agreement with the results of calculation.

Mots clés: Degenerate four wave mixing; Photorefractive effect; Experimental study; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability

Pierre Mathey, Grégory Gadret, S. Odoulov, D. Rytz. Optical hysteresis in a semilinear photorefractive coherent oscillator. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 2007, 9 (3), pp.243-246. ⟨10.1088/1464-4258/9/3/006⟩. ⟨hal-00405757⟩