FEEDBACK-ENHANCED BISTABILITY IN GRATING COUPLING INTO INSB WAVE-GUIDES

被引:9
作者
ASSANTO, G
EHRLICH, JE
STEGEMAN, GI
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[1] Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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10.1364/OL.15.000411
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We show that the bistability obtained through grating coupling into a waveguide with a diffusive nonlinearity is enhanced in the presence of a second counterpropagating guided-wave beam. An integrated device in which a nonlinear distributed-feedback grating is used to retroreflect the incoupled beam is demonstrated. © 1990 Optical Society of America.
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页码:411 / 413
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