Abstract
The stability of folded Fabry-Perot resonators is investigated for the case where the resonator contains a medium with a dispersive third-order nonlinearity. Positive-branch instabilities of Ikeda type are found, with thresholds comparable to optical bistability thresholds. In the unstable region, the internal field is apparently chaotic, though oscillatory behaviour is found in a special case. © 1981.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 343-346 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Optics Communications |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 1981 |