Optical Bistability And Switching By Non Inear Waveguiding In Semiconductor Lasers And Laser Amplifiers
John Gerard McInerney, Yuan Li, Theodore C. Salvi +1 more
Bistable optical devices (BODs) are interesting for optical switching, limiting, memory, signal conditioning and logic [1]. Semiconductor-based BODs are especially promising because their large nonlinearities should permit development of compact, rugged and efficient systems. Here we concentrate on active semiconductor BODs and switches, that is those which have internal gain, such as injection lasers and amplifiers.
Digest on Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Phenomena and Devices•Jan 1, 1990•1 citation