Optical bistability and Fano-like resonance transmission in a ring cavity-coupled Michelson interferometer

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Li, Li ^a,b   Zhang, Xinlu ^a   Chen, Lixue ^b  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Kerr effect; Michelson interferometer; Nonlinear resonator; Optical bistability

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HYSTERESIS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTORESISTS; RESONANCE;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AND LOGIC FUNCTION; BI-STABILITY; CAVITY DETUNING; CONTRAST RATIO (CR); COUPLED SYSTEMS; DIRECT CHANNEL; EVOLUTION (CO); FANO RESONANCES; HIGH STABILITY; KERR NON-LINEARITY; LINEAR PHASE (LP); LOOP MIRROR; LOW LOSSES; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; PHASE-COMPENSATION; RESONANCE TRANSMISSION; RING-CAVITY; SCATTERING MATRIX APPROACH; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SINGLE CAVITY; SWITCHING THRESHOLDS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 47249120799     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/7/075305     Document Type: Article

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