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Periodic Coupling in Dielectric/Semiconductor Guided-Wave Bistable Devices

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Optical Bistability III

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Nonlinear optical effects influence periodic coupling between a dielectric waveguide and a thin semiconductor cladding. Resulting propagation characteristics are used with distributed feedback to design a bistable switch.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22901, USA

    T. E. Batchman

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Organization 2531, Albuquerque, NM, 87185, USA

    R. F. Carson

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  1. T. E. Batchman
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  1. Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Hyatt M. Gibbs  & Nasser Peyghambarian  & 

  2. Campus Plaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Paul Mandel

  3. Dept. of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Riccarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    S. Desmond Smith

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Batchman, T.E., Carson, R.F. (1986). Periodic Coupling in Dielectric/Semiconductor Guided-Wave Bistable Devices. In: Gibbs, H.M., Mandel, P., Peyghambarian, N., Smith, S.D. (eds) Optical Bistability III. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46580-2_29

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