Bistability and all-optical switching in semiconductor ring lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 12941-12948

  Pérez, Toni ^a   Scirè, Alessandro ^a   Van Der Sande, Guy ^a,b   Colet, Pere ^a   Mirasso, Claudio R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

COUNTER-PROPAGATING MODES; CROSS-GAIN SATURATION; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 35148890660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012941     Document Type: Article

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