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American Journal of Physics

A student experiment on optical bistability

Chee-Wai Lau, Jow-Tsong Shy

Published Jan 1, 1991• 1 citation
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Abstract

A hybrid system that consists of an oscilloscope and a photodiode is used to demonstrate optical bistability. The details of the experimental setup and its graphical solution will be presented.
DOI
10.1119/1.16715

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A coupled hybrid optical bistable device composed of two oscilloscopes and two photodiode detectors has been constructed. This device is used to experimentally simulate the basic feature of the flip-flop operator proposed by Otsuka [Opt. Lett. 14 (1989) 72]. Most importantly, it allows us to model the system easily, and hence the condition of an occurrence of the flip-flop operation is accordingly predicted by the linear stability analysis. Furthermore, the influences of symmetry property of the optical system upon the flip-flop operation have been discussed as well.