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Frontiers in Optics

Revealing conditions required for achieving Kerr bistable memory based on whispering gallery mode cavity

Wataru Yoshiki, Takasumi Tanabe

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain Kerr bistable memory in a whispering-gallery-mode cavity with an add-drop system but it is impossible with a side-coupled system when the thermo-optic effect is present.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2013.ftu3a.5

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