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Optical bistabilities have been considered to be useful for sensor applications. As a typical nonlinear device, Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifiers (FPSOAs) exhibit bistability under certain conditions. In this paper, the bistable characteristics in FPSOAs are investigated theoretically. Based on Adams’s relationship between the incident optical intensity I in and the z-independent average intracavity intensity I av, an analytical expression of the bistable loop width in SOAs is derived. Numerical simulations confirm the accuracy of the analytical result.
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Wang, G., Chen, S. & Yang, H. An analytical study on bistability of Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifiers. Photonic Sens 6, 268–273 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-016-0332-x
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