Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Dynamical hysteresis in a bistable semiconductor laser-amplifier system

Angela Hohl, Rajarshi Roy

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations

Abstract

Optical bistability in a semiconductor laser-amplifier system has been investigated previously and found to exhibit switching at very low intensities.

DOI: 10.1364/oam.1993.fll.3

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