Transient Behavior of Excitonic Semiconductor Optical Bistability

Albert T. Rosenberger, Luis A. Orozco, Harry J. Kimble

Tingwan Wu, Fa Ou, Fu‐Gen Wu

Some results of probing to the common properties, including bistability, transient behavior, and instability of the excitonic optical nonlinear dynamic systems, such as interaction of light field with carrier in semiconductor, or anharmonic vibration of lattice in ionic crystal, are presented. Since the excitonic optical bistability (EOB) was found, it has garnered much attention for its advantage in properties and application prospects. Some models have been proposed for different kinds of OB. However, so far as we know, there has been relatively less concern given to the common dynamic characteristics of these systems, which are significant for applications. On the other hand, the instability of the EOB device certainly has the same importance, the study for which is not ample yet. In this paper we study the increasing absorptive OB, the behaviors of responding to inject signal, also the self-pulsing and chaotic phenomena in the excitonic OB systems.

Eiichi Hanamura

Moira L. Steyn‐Ross, Crispin W. Gardiner

Xinfu Xia, Xiao-shen Li, D. L. Lin +1 more

Transient behavior in the optical bistability mediated by phonon-mode and virtual-exciton coupling is studied for an electron-phonon-coupling system, such as polydiacetylene toluene sulfonate. Numerical calculations are used to analyze the evolution between bistable states, and switching behavior and Rabi oscillations are found.

Yia‐Chung Chang

Transient behaviors of the optical bistability and degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor superlattices due to two different mechanisms, the band nonparabolicity and photoexcited plasma, are studied theoretically. For the optical bistability, the switching time and switching power are estimated for a number of semiconductor superlattices.