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Electronics Letters

Guided-wave optical bistability through nonlinearcascading in a phase-matched distributed reflector

Giuseppe Leo, Matteo Picciau, Gaetano Assanto

Published Sep 14, 1995• 7 citations
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Abstract

The authors numerically investigate optical bistability in a periodic waveguide in the presence of a quadratic nonlinearity allowing phase-matched second-harmonic generation. The structure is a tuned Bragg coupler for two counterpropagating modes at the fundamental frequency, and is coherently controlled by a seed at the second harmonic.
DOI
10.1049/el:19951118

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