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

Dynamics of switching waves and realization of shift register in optically bistable GaAs/GaAlAs interferometer

George V. Sinitsyn, Sergey P. Apanasevich, Andrey V. Lyakhnovich, Anatoly S. Yasukevich, Mikhail A. Khodasevich, Yuriy A. Varaksa, Alexander A. Dokutovich

Published Apr 3, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

Dynamics of switching waves in optically bistable all- epitaxial GaAs/GaAlAs Fabry-Perot interferometers is studied experimentally. Realization of planar optical shift register based on propagation of switching waves between neighbor pixels in the plane of bistable layer is proposed.
DOI
10.1117/12.464489

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