Optical bistability in PLZT ceramics

Maris Ozolinsh; Dag Hanstorp; Sven T. Lagerwall

doi:10.1080/00150199708228380

Optical bistability in PLZT ceramics

Maris Ozolinsh^*
, Dag Hanstorp
, Sven T. Lagerwall

^*Corresponding author for this work

Laboratory of Adaptive Optics Technology, Institute of Solid State Physics

Chalmers University of Technology

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Abstract

Optical bistability in PLZT ceramics due to the Ar⁺ laser induced heating and changes of the optical thickness of a plane parallel PLZT plate (behaving as the Fabry-Perot cavity) is observed. Such PLZT ceramics plate is used also as an extracavity laser mirror. Thermooptical tuning of the mirror causes a non-liner behaviour of such system. A negative feedback brought by the thermooptic mirror can be used to stabilise the laser output. On the contrary, the competitive action of the PLZT plate as the coupled mirror, on one hand, and as the non-linear Fabry-Perot cavity, on the other hand, can cause periodical fluctuations in the output of the laser.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	295-304
Number of pages	10
Journal	Ferroelectrics
Volume	201
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00150199708228380
Publication status	Published - 1997

Keywords

Bistability
Optical non-linearity
PLZT ceramics
Thermooptic effect

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