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This document discusses nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavities, where the absorption coefficient or dielectric constant depend on light intensity. It describes how in such a cavity, the relationship between output and input intensity is affected by factors like the cavity length, wavelength, and reflection coefficient. It notes that maximum transmission occurs when the cavity length is an integer multiple of half the wavelength, while minimum transmission occurs at odd integer multiples. The cavity can exhibit bistability, where an increase in input intensity does not lead to a proportional increase in output intensity if the index of refraction depends on intensity.

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This document discusses nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavities, where the absorption coefficient or dielectric constant depend on light intensity. It describes how in such a cavity, the relationship between output and input intensity is affected by factors like the cavity length, wavelength, and reflection coefficient. It notes that maximum transmission occurs when the cavity length is an integer multiple of half the wavelength, while minimum transmission occurs at odd integer multiples. The cavity can exhibit bistability, where an increase in input intensity does not lead to a proportional increase in output intensity if the index of refraction depends on intensity.

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Nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavities We have already mentioned the quest for a liquid crystal display in Section 10.15.

The ideal device that still needs to be produced is a spatial light modulator which is voltage addressable with a resolution of the order of a wavelength and a speed (say nanoseconds) comparable with that of fast digital
computers.

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13.9 Nonlinear Fabry-Perotcavities


A number of interesting effects occur when either the absorption coefficient or the dielectric constant depend on the intensily of light. In this section we shall discuss one particular manifestation of this non-linear effect when a dielectric, whose index of refraction obeys eqn (13.4), forms a Fabry-Perot cavify. It is fairly easy to show that the relationship benveen 1,, and 1;, the output and input intensiry of the caviry. is

-+R !:[t+ =.tntill Ii L rl-RrI

3.20)

where / is the length of the cavity, k is the u'ave number. and R is the power reflection coefficient. Equation (13.20) makes,sood sense. When kl : mt or I : m),12, the transmission is maximum (all pou'er is transmitted) whereas minimum transmission occurs when ft / : 2(ri * 1 ) ( iT I 2\, or I : (2nt t | ) (L / 1). For R : 0.36 and 0.7, eqn (13.20) is plotted in Fig. 13.19 for one period as a function of /c/. Obviously, the greater is R the sharper is the resonance. Large values of R at a given frequency can be easily achieved by rnultiple element dielectric mirrors. But, even in the simplest case r'r.hen u'e rely upon retlection at a dielectric-air interface, we can get quite high values. For inSb. 1br example, which has been used in bistability experiments. e. : 15.9. and R : 0.36. If the dielectnc is linear, then an increase in input intensir-v would lead to a proportional increase in output intensif-v. Consider norv the case when the index of refraction obeys the equation n : n 0 * n 2 I ( assum i n g that the intens ir-v inside the cavity is the same as that leaving) and take a point on the 11/l curve, where the function is increasing (A in Fig. 13,19). What happens now if 1; is

L li

Fig. 13.19
(2m+l)L
A plot of eqn (13.20) for R
and 0.7.

0.36

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