Doppler-free two-photon absorption and dispersion spectroscopy with a Fabry-Perot cell

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Herlemont ◽  
M. Azizi ◽  
J. Lemaire

We discuss the origin and characteristics of the very large intensity-dependent changes in the refractive index of the semiconductor cadmium mercury telluride at 10.6 m. With continuous wave (c.w.) radiation and sample temperatures of 77 K nonlinear Fabry-Perot effects can be observed at powers as low as 1 mW. The Auger dominated recombination process and the thermal contributions to the refractive index make observations of optical bistability difficult with c.w. radiation. However, the use of a pulsed CO 2 laser and two-photon absorption of the radiation does lead to the observation of bistability at room temperature. We compare these results with the reported work on InSb.


1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 1765-1771 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. HAMILTON and D. S. ELLIOTT

2010 ◽  
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Fei-Fei CHEN ◽  
Tie-Feng XU ◽  
Shi-Xun DAI ◽  
Qiu-Hua NIE ◽  
Xiang SHEN ◽  
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