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Optics Communications

Directionally asymmetrical bistability in a symmetrically pumped nonlinear ring interferometer

A. E. Kaplan, Pierre Meystre

Published Jan 1, 1982• 102 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(82)90267-x

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