Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 49, Numéro C2, Juin 1988
Optical Bistability - IV
Page(s) C2-377 - C2-380
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1988289
Optical Bistability - IV

J. Phys. Colloques 49 (1988) C2-377-C2-380

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1988289

LIGHT BY LIGHT MODULATION AND SUBHARMONIC GENERATION IN SEMICONDUCTORDOPED GLASS

N.I. ZHELUDEV1, I.S. RUDDOCK2 et R. ILLINGWORTH2

1  Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 117234, USSR
2  Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, GB-Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland, Great-Britain


Résumé
Le processus de transmission et d'absorption induite par un faisceau laser, avec un temps de relaxation de l'ordre de la milliseconde, génère des sous-harmoniques de la fréquence de modulation et mène à un résponse quasi-chaotique.


Abstract
Laser induced darkening and clearing in a semiconductor-doped glass, with a millisecond relaxation time, generates complex subharmonics of the modulation frequency and leads to a near chaotic response.