GUIDED-WAVE OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN INDIUM-ANTIMONIDE THIN-FILMS

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作者
EHRLICH, JE
ASSANTO, G
STEGEMAN, GI
CHIU, TH
机构
[1] UNIV ARIZONA, CTR OPT SCI, TUCSON, AZ 85721 USA
[2] UNIV CENT FLORIDA, ELECTR OPT & LASERS RES CTR, ORLANDO, FL 32826 USA
[3] AT&T BELL LABS, HOLMDEL, NJ 07733 USA
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10.1109/3.81393
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Various grating configurations used to obtain optical bistability in a guided-wave format are discussed and experimentally demonstrated using indium antimonide planar waveguides. The theory of nonlinear diffusive distributed input grating coupling is presented, and the enhancement afforded by additional feedback mechanisms is verified, both with an externally coupled counterpropagating beam and with an integrated optics Bragg reflector.
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