Theoretical and experimental studies on bistability in semiconductor ring lasers with two optical injections

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 903-910

  Yuan, Guohui ^a,b   Wang, Zhuoran ^a,b   Li, Bei ^b   Memon, Muhammad Irfan ^b   Yu, Siyuan ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

All optical; Bistability; Hysteresis; Nonlinear; Semiconductor ring lasers (SRLs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HYSTERESIS; LASERS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL; BEAM STRENGTH; BI-STABILITY; COUNTERPROPAGATING (CP); EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; NON LINEAR MODES; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS (SRL); SWITCHING POWER;

HYSTERESIS LOOPS;

EID: 45249107761     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.918058     Document Type: Article

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