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Optics Letters

Optical thresholding and switching using a fiber-coupled phase-conjugate mirror

Ram Yahalom, Avigail Yariv

Published Oct 1, 1988• 4 citations
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Abstract

A fiber-coupled-ring passive phase-conjugate mirror is used to achieve mutual thresholding free of bistability effects and to obtain switching among several mutually incoherent light beams.
DOI
10.1364/ol.13.000889

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