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The behaviour of a Fabry-Perot transmission cavity containing a two-level absorber is derived as a function of the incident power and of the resonantor and absorber parameters by taking into account the spatially averaged absorption coefficient of the gas. The state equation so obtained exhibits a bistable behaviour. The transmittance of a microwave cavity filled with ammonia gas and tuned at the frequency of the (3,3) inversion line of ammonia is investigated experimentally as a function of the frequency of the incident em wave and gas pressure. Good quantitative agreement is found between the theoretical description and the experimental results.
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In the now standard definitions in the literature7−10 the state equation involves the normalized input transmitted powers, i. e., in our notation the quantities aY and aX.
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Arimondo, E., Gozzini, A., Lovitch, L., Pistelli, E. (1981). Microwave Dispersive Bistability in a Confocal Fabry-Perot Microwave Cavity. In: Bowden, C.M., Ciftan, M., Robl, H.R. (eds) Optical Bistability. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3941-0_10
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