GUIDED-WAVE OPTICAL BISTABILITY AND LIMITING IN ZINC-SULFIDE THIN-FILMS

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SVENSSON, B
ASSANTO, G
STEGEMAN, GI
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[1] Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson
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10.1063/1.344990
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O59 [应用物理学];
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All-optical limiting and bistability are experimentally demonstrated in zinc sulfide waveguides excited by distributed grating couplers. The results are consistent with the presence of a diffusive nonlinearity through the optothermal effect, and a simplified model of the nonlocal traveling-wave interaction between radiation and guided modes is in agreement with the experimental data.
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