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Applied Physics Letters

Complex multistable responses of serially connected optical bistable devices

Yasunori Tokuda, Yuji Abe, Kyozo Kanamoto, Noriaki Tsukada

Published Aug 26, 1991• 7 citations
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Abstract

We investigated the response characteristics of two bistable elements optically connected in series, i.e., vertically integrated self-electro-optic effect devices. The experimental results demonstrated that a variety of the multistable responses are obtained by controlling the electrical parameters. The composite characteristics of the two-tier system can be clearly predicted and interpreted in terms of the overlap of three bistable regions.

DOI
10.1063/1.106330

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