Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Overshoot switching and cross talk in optical bistability (A)

S. S. Tarng, Kuochou Tai, Jerry V. Moloney, Hyatt M. Gibbs, Arthur C. Gossard, S. L. McCall, A. Passner, W. Wiegmann

Published Dec 1, 1982• 1 citation

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