Observation of counterclockwise, clockwise and butterfly bistabilty in 1550 nm VCSOAs

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4953-4959

  Marki, Christopher F ^a   Jorgesen, Douglas R ^a   Zhang, Haijiang ^a   Wen, Pengyue ^a   Esener, Sadik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CURRENTS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; SWITCHING; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL LOGIC; SWITCHING ELEMENTS; SWITCHING POWERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34247250836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004953     Document Type: Article

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