Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Pitchfork bifurcation and all-optical flip-flop operation with a coupled traveling-wave amplifier system

Kenju Otsuka, Jyh‐Long Chern, John K. McIver

Published Jun 1, 1991• 2 citations

Abstract

Mirrorless optical bistability arising through pitchfork bifurcation is predicted in a coupled anisotropic traveling-wave laser amplifier system. It is shown theoretically that an all-optical flip-flop operation can be attained by utilizing the complementary bistable characteristics of counterpropagating beams.

DOI: 10.1364/josab.8.001304

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