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

Modal analysis of grating-induced optical bistability

Guy Vitrant, P. Vincent, R. Reinisch, M. Nevière

Published Oct 1, 1991• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a simplified modal analysis of a Kerr-type grating coupler that rigorously takes into account the groove depth of the grating. These nonlinear grating couplers exhibit optical bistability. A comparison between the bistable loops obtained from this simplified method and a previously published rigorous method is performed.
DOI
10.1117/12.49420

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