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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Optical bistable switching in Fabry-Perot interferometer with bulk heavily doped GaAs active layer

George V. Sinitsyn, Ilya A. Utkin

Published Mar 2, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

Dynamic behavior of the nonlinear Fabry-Perot interferometer with heavily doped n-GaAs internal layer under 20 ns laser pulses excitation has been studied. Optical bistability with less than 10 ns switch-OFF time has been demonstrated.
DOI
10.1117/12.676813

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