Electronics Letters

Hybrid optical bistability based on increasing absorption in depletion layer of an Si Schottky seed device

D. Jäger, Franz Forsmann, Hongchen Zhai

Published May 7, 1987• 5 citations

Abstract

We report novel experimental results of cavityless optical bistability in the depletion layer of an Si Schottky SEED with CW light of 1.06μm at room temperature, where the induced absorption is largely enhanced by electrooptical feedback.

DOI: 10.1049/el:19870356

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