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Electronics Letters

Optimum control beam angle for a biased optical bistable device

Rosie Cush

Published Jun 4, 1987• 2 citations
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Abstract

The control beam intensity required to switch a multibeam, cascadable Fabry–Perot bistable device may be minimised by varying the beam incident angle.
DOI
10.1049/el:19870444

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