Optical bistability

<h2 id="intrinsic-bistability">Intrinsic bistability</h2>
<p>When the feedback mechanism is provided by an internal procedure (not by an external entity like the mirror within the <a href="/facts/Interferometry/X3E1SsQT">Interferometers</a>), the latter will be known as intrinsic optical bistability.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> This process can be seen in nonlinear media containing the <a href="/facts/Nanoparticles/k8kNxX4E">nanoparticles</a> through which the effect of <a href="/facts/Surface_plasmon_resonance/8JKldMUT">surface plasmon resonance</a> can potentially occur.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<ul><li>Guangsheng He; Song H. Liu (1999). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CqYTqT9kQDUC&pg=PA422"><i>Physics of Nonlinear Optics</i></a>. World Scientific. pp. 422–. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-981-02-3319-8.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Gibbs, Hyatt (1985). "Introduction to Optical Bistability". Optical Bistability: Controlling Light With Light. Quantum electronics--principles and applications. Orlando, FL: Academic Press Inc. p. 1. ISBN 978-0122819407. Retrieved June 16, 2021. <a href="978-0122819407" target="_blank">978-0122819407</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Goldstone, J. A., and E. Garmire. "Intrinsic optical bistability in nonlinear media". Physical review letters 53.9 (1984): 910. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.910 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.910" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.910</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Sharif, Morteza A., et al. "Difference Frequency Generation-based ultralow threshold Optical Bistability in graphene at visible frequencies, an experimental realization". Journal of Molecular Liquids 284 (2019): 92–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2019.03.167 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2019.03.167" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2019.03.167</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Optical bistability