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Optical bistable behavior in a quasi-waveguide containing non-linear film has been experimentally investigated in several publications in the past years; however, the physical mechanism for optical bistability has not been theoretically explained. In the present letter, we propose a theoretical model and successfully explain the observed optical bistability of both the reflected light and the scattered light (m-lines) in a non-linear quasi-waveguide. The optical bistability in the non-linear quasi-waveguide is due to the scattering-type wavevector mismatch mechanism.
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Received: 10 July 2002 / Revised version: 10 September 2002 / Published online: 20 December 2002
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Liao, J., Zhang, X., Xu, F. et al. Theory of optical bistability in a non-linear quasi-waveguide . Appl Phys B 75, 865–869 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-002-1054-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-002-1054-x