Optical Bistability In Random Glassy Polymers

A. F. Garito; J. W. Wu

doi:10.1117/12.962102

15 January 1990 Optical Bistability In Random Glassy Polymers

A. F. Garito, J. W. Wu

Proceedings Volume 1147, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962102
Event: 33rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1989, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Optical bistability is the quantum optical realization of a first order phase transition far from equilibrium. A resonant nonlinear optical response of it-electron excitations in low dimensional structures provides the nonlinearity essential to the onset of bistability. Saturable absorption studies of glassy polymer films consisting of quasi two-dimensional conjugated disc-like structures of silicon naphthalocyanine demonstrate that on-resonance the system behaves as an optical Bloch system with an intensity dependent refractive index n₂ of 1x10^-4 cm²/kW in the wavelength range of standard laser diodes. Based on this result, electronic absorptive optical bistability is observed on a nanosecond time scale in a nonlinear Fabry-Perot interferometer employing the saturably absorbing naphthalocyanine film as the nonlinear optical medium.

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A. F. Garito and J. W. Wu "Optical Bistability In Random Glassy Polymers", Proc. SPIE 1147, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials II, (15 January 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962102

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