Effects of spatial distributivity in optical bistability and optical computing

H. I. Carmichael, J.A. Hermann

J.A. Hermann, B. V. Thompson

Nikolay N. Rosanov, Федоров Анатолий Валентинович, Galina V. Khodova

Abstract Results are presented of a theoretical analysis of transverse and longitudinal distributivity effects in semiconductor optical bistable systems. For a resonatorless increasing absorption bistable system the kinetics of autopulsations (resulting from the formation of moving absorption domains) are described. For wideaperture nonlinear interferometers new types of field spatial structures are shown: immovable and moving autosolitons, waves of automodulation and autostochasticity, and pulsing distributions.

E. Abraham, R. Bullough, Saad S. M. Hassan

Nikolay N. Rosanov

Results of analysis and comparison are given of the effects of spatial (mainly transversal) distribution in optical bistable systems (increasing absorption bistability, nonlinear resonators and nonlinear reflection) and in a system with phase transition (liquid - vapour).

Stanley Desmond Smith