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Optical Bistability in CuCl

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When using a nonlinear medium in a Fabry-Perot interferometer (F.P.), optical bistability is due to an intensity dependence of the real or imaginary part of the dielectric function1,2.

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Hönerlage, B., Bigot, JY., Levy, R. (1984). Optical Bistability in CuCl. In: Bowden, C.M., Gibbs, H.M., McCall, S.L. (eds) Optical Bistability 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_36

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