Nonstationary nonlinear effects in optical microspheres

Aleksey E. Fomin; Michael L. Gorodetsky; Ivan S. Grudinin; Vladimir S. Ilchenko

doi:10.1117/12.530657

1 June 2004 Nonstationary nonlinear effects in optical microspheres

Aleksey E. Fomin, Michael L. Gorodetsky, Ivan S. Grudinin, Vladimir S. Ilchenko

Proceedings Volume 5333, Laser Resonators and Beam Control VII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.530657
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2004, San Jose, Ca, United States

Abstract

Thermal nonlinearity can produce oscillatory instability in optical microspheres. We analyze theoretically the conditions of observations of this regime and demonstrate it experimentally. The observed curves are well compared with results of numerical modelling. In pure fused silica with low absorption thermal oscillations are suppressed due to concurrency with Kerr nonlinearity. We also describe for the first time experimentally observed slow and irreversible thermooptical processes in microspheres.

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Aleksey E. Fomin, Michael L. Gorodetsky, Ivan S. Grudinin, and Vladimir S. Ilchenko "Nonstationary nonlinear effects in optical microspheres", Proc. SPIE 5333, Laser Resonators and Beam Control VII, (1 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.530657

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