# Observation of Nonlinear Mode in a Cylindrical Fabry-Perot Cavity

## FIGURE CAPTIONS

FIG 1. The cylindrical Fabry-Perot cavity, showing the coordinate system used and an incident Gaussian (in $`x`$) beam.

FIG 2. Schematic of the experimental apparatus used to observe the spatial nonlinear mode. The D’s are detectors.

FIG 3. Calculated linear absorption and $`n_2`$ in natural-abundance Rb vapor at $`80^{}\mathrm{C}`$ ($`N=1.5\times 10^{12}\mathrm{c}m^3`$), near the D2 transition at $`\lambda =780\mathrm{n}m`$, for circularly-polarized light. The arrow indicates the line used in the experiment, the Doppler-broadened $`{}_{}{}^{85}\mathrm{R}b`$, $`F=2`$ set of transitions.

FIG 4. Power transmitted through the nonlinear cavity as a function of laser frequency, for a particular cavity length $`L`$ and beam power. Frequency is relative to the $`{}_{}{}^{85}\mathrm{R}b`$ line indicated in Fig. 3.

FIG 5. Total power transmitted through the cavity as a function of laser frequency, for two different cavity lengths $`L`$.

FIG 6. Transmitted intensity profiles of spatial nonlinear mode taken with the CCD camera, integrated over $`y`$, at the peaks of the nonlinear modes shown in Fig. 5.